By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Be familiar with the components of good maintenance practices that can produce the required 
  reliability in the most cost effective manner
• Appreciate how an existing maintenance activities can be both improved and acceptable
• Understand the techniques and benefits for good, efficient maintenance planning
• Recognize the need for and interpretation of maintenance measures
• Become conversant with techniques for maintenance budgeting and effective reporting
• Gain an understanding of how to implement maintenance activities in line with your company’s requirements

Personnel involved in the maintenance of equipment and facilities including plant engineers, supervisors and managers; maintenance engineers, supervisors and managers; maintenance planners; property, facility managers who are responsible for ensuring that equipment and facilities operate in an economic and reliable fashion; consulting engineers; design engineers; industrial engineers; production and managers

Maintenance Philosophy and Strategy

• Overview of maintenance programs
• Definition of maintenance terms
• Roles and responsibilities
• Maintenance strategy
• Prioritizing maintenance work

Effective Maintenance Practices

• Regulations, Codes and Standards
• Preventive maintenance tasks and frequencies
• Maintenance procedures
• Maintenance spare parts
• Reviewing an existing preventive maintenance program
• Making the right economic decisions
• Management systems

Maintenance Staffing

• Shift scheduling
• Multi-skilling
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Contracting out maintenance activities

Efficiently Applying Reliability Cantered Maintenance

• Background
• Description of process
• Templates

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

• Overview of planning and scheduling
• Preventive maintenance program planning, scheduling and time estimating
• Corrective maintenance planning, scheduling and time estimating
• Corrective maintenance planning tools
• Backlogs
• Emergencies
• Minor adjustments and repairs
• Unexpected outage opportunities
• What the planner/scheduler needs to know
• Long term maintenance requirements

General Maintenance Information

• Equipment lockout/tagout
• Lubrication
• Material degradation

• • • Non-Destructive Examination (NDE)
    • Vibration monitoring
    • Acoustic monitoring
    • Equipment condition instrumentation

Monitoring and Reporting Maintenance Activities
 

• Useful measures
• Benchmarking
• Maintenance auditing
• Reporting
• Budgeting

Effectively Managing Maintenance Work

• Limits for corrective maintenance and acceptability
• Documentation
• Historical records and analysis

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.