This comprehensive 5-day training course has been designed to benefit both qualified new professionals as well as experienced professionals who might need to refresh their skills It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management attend this workshop. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable training course. This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Maintenance supervisors and superintendents
• Reliability engineers
• Operational professionals who are interested in maintenance reliability and asset management
• Safety and integrity professionals
• Other professionals involved in process improvement

Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. It is the job of the maintenance professional to optimize the maintenance effort using a structured and systematic approach. This training course covers all the fundamentals of Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management that a suitably qualified professional would be expected to carry out during his duty starting with the first steps and building up in a staircase fashion to fully functional maintenance organization. Individuals exposed to this training will develop new insights into international best practices. They will learn why the best companies in the world see Maintenance management as the key to delivering the right quality product at the lowest costs. Technical knowledge is key to effective control and peers' respect within any maintenance organization; when this is achieved personal satisfaction follows. This seminar will give the delegate the required level of technical knowledge and skill to achieve personal satisfaction. On completion of this seminar, the delegate will be able to critically analyze the methodologies employed within the organization and instigate improvements where required. This training course will feature:

• Fundamentals of maintenance, reliability and asset management
• Reliability modelling and failure modes for rotating and stationary machinery
• Learning from major failures
• Condition-based maintenance technologies
• Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies in asset management

To provide a step-by-step guide to maintenance, reliability and asset management best practice starting with foundations and building up to best practice that will deliver maximum business benefits. By virtue of dynamic participation in this seminar, it is to be expected that delegates will make a substantial, positive impact on the maintenance regime within their home organization. By the end of this training course, participants will be able to have:

• A solid understanding of Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
• An understanding of a range of equipment failures and their implications to the operational organization.
• The ability to design a maintenance plan for the upkeep and maintenance inspections of static and rotating plant.
• A practical approach to developing an action plan to utilize these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy, and measuring benefits
• Integration of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)

This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. This is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. This training course is highly interactive with many discussions and facilitated practice sessions led by speakers who are at the forefront of their field. There are plenty of case studies and illustrations of both worst and best practices in the field of maintenance and asset management.

Day One: 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

Day Two: 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
• Reflection on Why Systems Fail

Day Three: Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability

• Further Reliability Definitions and Standards
• Examples of the Planning Process.
• Hazard Function and Bath Tub Curve
• Weibull Analysis
• Case Studies from Rotating Equipment
• Case Studies of Major Failures in other Industries

Day Four: Condition Based Maintenance

• General Purpose CBM
• The P-F Curve
• Principles of Vibration Monitoring
• Thermal Monitoring
• Acoustic Emission
• Lubricant Monitoring

Day Five: Decision Analysis in Asset Management

• Main Criticism of Existing Management of Computerised Maintenance Systems
• The Asset Management Framework
• The Decision-Making Grid Approaches
• Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategies
• Integration of RCM, TPM, and CBM Approaches