Start Date : 27 July ,2025
End Date : 31 July ,2025
Duration : 5 Days
Overview:
This training course is intended to introduce the participant to the process of making decisions regarding equipment maintenance optimisation including equipment replacement. Various optimisation techniques will be presented and the optimisation criteria explained. This course will also include several workshops with case studies and real-world problems to be solved.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this training course, the participants will be able to:
Identify equipment failures, and the impact on plant reliability
Understand the cost-effectiveness of Preventive/Predictive Maintenance program
Apply techniques of optimisation of various maintenance activities
Define criteria for work-crew size, spare parts and equipment replacement
Make the important decision on the basis of the cost and benefit analysis
Incorporate safety objectives to the equipment repair or replacement optimisation
Course Content:
1. Physical Asset Management & Failure Analysis
- Physical Asset Management
- Maintenance Management: Preventive / Predictive Approach
- Nature and Modes of Equipment Failure
- Failure Modes & Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Analysis of Component Failure data using the Weibull Distribution
- Censored Data, the 3-Parameter Weibull, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
2. Preventive Maintenance & Spare Parts Replacements
- Reliability and Availability Concept: MTBF & MTTR
- Reliability Improvement through Reduction of Downtime
- Maintenance Performance Quantification
- Preventive Maintenance & Spare Part Handling
- Spare Parts Provisioning: Prediction Models and Techniques
- Management of Change: In-Kind Spare Parts
3. Equipment Inspection & Fitness for Service
- Condition Monitoring & Inspection
- Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
- Risk Matrix: Management and Mitigation Measures
- Reliability Improvement through Inspection
- Inspection Scope & Frequency
- Fitness for Service Analysis (FFS)
4. Economics of Maintenance, Repair & Replacement
- Management of Maintenance Resources
- Effective Use of CMMS
- Maintenance Organization Analysis : Crew size
- Equipment Repair or Replacement Decision
- Economic Aspect of Maintenance Outsourcing: Subcontract
- Economic Aspect of Equipment Replacement
5. Total Productive Maintenance & Safety
- Capital Investment in Equipment and Maintenance: ROI
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Safety in Maintenance Work
- KPI and OEE: Leading and Lagging Indicators
Targeted Audience:
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Technical professionals respon-sible for maintenance and re-pair of equipment
- Operation, technical production & inspection professionals
- Technical professionals dealing with risk assessment and integ-rity analysis
