This programme is suitable for all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management attend this training course. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable training course.

Maintenance Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. This comprehensive 10-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 covers all the fundamentals of Maintenance that a suitably qualified professional would be expected to carry out during his duty starting with the first steps and building up in a stair case fashion to a fully functional maintenance organisation.

The objectives of this training are:

• To provide a step-by-step guide to maintenance best practice starting with foundations and building up to best practice that will deliver maximum business benefits
• To instruct Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
• To provide opportunities to discuss the application of these best practices
• Provide an opportunity to learn these concepts through practical exercises

This training course is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. The training course is highly interactive with many discussion and facilitated practice sessions.

This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as an individual, 5 Day training courses.

Module 1 - Maintenance Management Best Practices: Systems, Tools & Techniques

Module 2 - Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Technology Best Practices

Module 1: Maintenance Management Best Practices: Systems, Tools & Techniques

Day One: An Overview of Key Maintenance Work Processes

• Introduction to Maintenance Management
• Definitions of key terms
• Types of Maintenance - Reactive, planned and improvement jobs, Preventive and Proactive

Day Two: Maintenance Management Systems

• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
• Developing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators 

Day Three: Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy

• Maintenance Organisation Structure and Policies
• Developing and Implementing a Preventive Maintenance Program
• Applying Reliability Based principles to Maintenance Strategy Development

Day Four: Maintenance Logistics and Cost Control

• Managing Maintenance Spare Parts and Logistics
• Optimising Spare Parts Inventory Levels
• Maintenance Budgeting
• Controlling Maintenance Costs
• Introduction to Life Cycle Cost Concepts

Day Five: Maintenance Team Work

• Engineering, Production & Maintenance Teams
• Benefits of Integrated teams
• Motivation and empowerment
• Total Productive Maintenance Concepts
• Implementing Team-Based Continuous Improvement in Maintenance

Module 2: Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Technology Best Practices

Day Six: 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 Seven: 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 Eight: 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 Nine: Condition Based Maintenance

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

Day Ten: 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