This training course will highlight:

• Preventive & predictive maintenance strategies and their position within Asset Management
• Risk Based Maintenance
• Maintenance & reliability engineering best practices
• Best practices in planning and scheduling (workflow management)
• The application of CMMS
• Monitoring & managing performance with Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Continuous improvement aspects

At the end of this training seminar, you will learn to:

• Understand how world-class organizations solve common planning problems
• Improve productivity through use of better, more timely information
• Implement a practical and effective predictive maintenance effort
• Improve consistency and reliability of asset information
• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies

This training seminar is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Maintenance Managers & Supervisors
• Personnel designated as planners, or identified to become planners
• Predictive Maintenance Technicians & Supervisors
• Key leaders from each Maintenance craft
• Maintenance & Reliability engineers
• Materials Management Managers/Supervisors
• CMMS key users

The training will be conducted along interactive workshop principles. There will be a variance of lectures and practical exercises. Experiences from different areas will be discussed. There will be many opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences.

DAY 1

The Need for Maintenance

• Maintenance & Asset Management as a business process
• Maintenance Philosophies
• Maintenance Definition
• The Evolution of Maintenance
• Maintenance Types
• Run to Failure
• Preventive Maintenance
• Predictive maintenance
• proactive maintenance
• RCM & TPM
• Nature of failure
• Optimization of Maintenance Decisions

• Failure Pattern Identification
• Statistical Analysis of Failures

DAY 2

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:

• Overview
• Maintenance Planning
• The Role of A Planner
• Planning meaning
• Benefits of Effective Planning and Scheduling
• Planning Procedures
• Planning Principles
• Creating MIWI
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Elements of effective Scheduling
• Scheduling Techniques

DAY 3

Maintenance Management System

• Maintenance Management Framework
• Introduction to CMMS
• Importance of CMMS
• CMMS Benefits
• CMMs Core Modules
• Work Order Cycle

DAY 4

Predictive Maintenance

• Potential Failure Analysis (PFA)

• Integration of PFA with FMECA & RBM
• Understanding the P-F Interval
• Decide which Technologies to Apply

• Predictive maintenance technologies

• Introduction to PDM
• Vibration analysis
• Visual inspection
• Infrared Thermography
• Temperature sensitive labels
• Megger tests
• Ultrasonics
• Oil analysis

DAY 5

Control of the Maintenance Process

• Implementation stages of preventive & predictive maintenance strategies
• CMMS integration
• Reporting – use of (Key) Performance Indicators
• Case studies

A RECTUS attendance certificate will be awarded to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total course duration.