Mini MBA:
Maintenance Management
& Technology
A to Z of Best Practices
Why Choose this 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. This will provide an ‘MBA level’ experience in terms of content, instruction, discussion and team exercises.
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10-Day Training event, or as individual, 5-Day training courses.
Module 1 - Maintenance Management Best Practices: Systems, Tools & Techniques
Module 2 - Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Technology Best Practices
What are the Goals?
By the end of this AZTech training course, participants will be able to:
- 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
Who is this Training Course for?
It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff attend this AZTech training course. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable training course.
This AZTech 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
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This AZTech training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. 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.
The Course Content
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
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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