Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management Course aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of maintenance optimization and reliability best practices. It enables professionals to design effective maintenance strategies and improve asset performance through structured approaches.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand maintenance optimization techniques and industry best practices
- Identify common equipment failures and assess their impact on operations
- Design maintenance plans for rotating and static equipment
- Apply reliability analysis and statistical methods to improve asset performance
- Integrate Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)
- Develop practical action plans to implement maintenance strategies and measure results
Who Should Attend?
This training course is ideal for:
- Maintenance supervisors and superintendents
- Reliability engineers and maintenance specialists
- Operations professionals involved in maintenance and asset performance
- Safety and asset integrity professionals
- Technical support staff and engineering teams
- Professionals engaged in process improvement and operational excellence initiatives
Course Content
Day1
Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis - Causes of Machinery Failure in Rotating Equipment
- Cavitation in pumps
- Tripping of turbines
- Surging in compressors
- Wear Mechanisms : Fatigue, Fretting, and Corrosion
- Fundamental Machine Problems: Balance Problems, Alignment Problems, Machinery Mounting Problems
- Fundamentals of maintenance and asset management
Day2
Failure Analysis and Reliability
- Elementary Statistics and standards
- Reliability Models
- Learning from major failures case studies in process industries
- Learning from major failures case studies in oil and gas industries
- Root cause analysis and extractions of specific and generic lessons
Day3
Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability
- Further reliability definitions and standards
- Hazard function and Bathtub curve
- Weibull Analysis
- Case studies from rotating equipment
- Case studies of major failures in other industries and lessons learned
Day4
Condition Based Maintenance
- General Purpose
- What is Vibration
- Thermal Monitoring
- Lubricant Monitoring
- The Essentials of Vibration Monitoring
Day5
Decision Analysis in Asset Management
- Main criticism of existing management of computerised maintenance systems.
- The Asset Management framework.
- The decision making grid approach.
- Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies.
- Integration of RCM, TPM, and CBM approaches