Maintenance Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. It is the job of the maintenance professional to optimise the maintenance effort using a structured and systematic approach. This course 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 staircase fashion to a fully functional maintenance organisation. At the end of this workshop, participants will have:

• 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.

Content

An Overview of Key Maintenance Work Processes

• Types of Maintenance - Reactive, planned and improvement jobs, Preventive and Proactive
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
• Developing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators

Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis

• Causes of Machinery Failure
• Fundamental Machine Problems
• Component Failure

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

Condition Based Maintenance and Approach

• What to Monitor and Where
• Condition Monitoring Systems
• Trending of Monitored Data
• Frequency of Measurement
• Parameter Symptom Limits
• Remaining Life Prediction

Vibration Analysis

• Overall and Spectral Representation
• The Big Five Machine Faults
• Detecting Faults Using Vibration
• Diagnosing Faults Using Vibration

Maintenance Teamwork

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

For Whom: All Engineers, Maintenance Technicians, Managers/Supervisors and Inspectors responsible for maintenance functions.