Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management
Technology Best Practices:

Inspection, Analysis & Monitoring

OBJECTIVES

• A solid understanding of Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
• An understanding of a range of equipment failures and their implications to the operational organisation.
• 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 utilise 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)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

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

COURSE OUTLINE

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.

Day Three: Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability

• Further reliability definitions and standards.
• Hazard function and bath tub curve.
• Weibull analysis.
• Case studies from rotating equipment.
• Case studies of major failures in other industries and lessons learned.

Day Four: Condition Based Maintenance

• General Purpose
• What is Vibration
• Thermal Monitoring
• Lubricant Monitoring
• The Essentials of Vibration 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 approach.
• Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies.
• Integration of RCM, TPM, and CBM approaches