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

• Make your operating plant and equipment more reliable and available for use
• Audit your operational and maintenance performance to identify improvement opportunities
• Design optimum maintenance strategies for in-the-field plant and equipment
• Make proper use of RCM results to deliver the maintenance performance that your management want
• Identify a clear approach to reliability improvement for both fixed plant and moving equipment
• Select applicable technologies for Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance
• Appreciate how to use failure data and industry failure databases and standards
• Introduce reliability growth principles on new, existing or old equipment
• Make sound Cost Benefit Decisions and spares holding selection
• Address dominant failure modes with correct selection of primary and secondary maintenance actions

Maintenance managers, maintenance supervisors, reliability and maintenance engineers, maintenance technicians, production managers, production supervisors, operators, plant engineers, and anyone who is involved in operating and maintaining of assets

• Introduction to Reliability Cantered Maintenance (RCM) concepts
• Foundation Reliability Knowledge
• Physics of Failure
• Why parts fail
• Equipment Failure Curves
• Early Life – Random – Age
• Maintenance strategy selection
• Risk Management
• The components of risk
• Measuring risk
• Maximum Reliability
• Series and Parallel Systems
• Life-cycle considerations
• Quality and Precision
• Human Factors
• Recognising Equipment Risk
• Identifying Effects of Failure
• Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Identifying failures and ways to eliminate them
• Identifying the root-cause
• Feasible ways (technically) of analysis
• Proactive Maintenance
• Maintenance Strategy Selection
• Making Reliability Centered Maintenance Work
• Changing to Better Maintenance Practices
• Purpose of RCM – on-condition based maintenance
• RCM – The 7 basic questions
• Describing and listing functions
• Performance Standards
• Applying the RCM process
• Integration of RCM and Implementation of Strategies
• Design Principles of Low-Cost, Usable, Reliable, Maintainable & Safe System
• Identifying Project and Operating Risk
• Setting Reliability Standards
• Reducing Operating Risk at Design
• Maximizing Availability
• Controlling Human Factors
• Quality Control – setting pass/fail criteria
• Importance of Standardization
• Accuracy controlled procedures
• Optimize Your Maintenance Systems
• Creating a Useful Maintenance Management System
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Developing and Implementing RCM with a Limited Staff
• Precision Operation – degradation management
• TPM - Operator Maintenance activities
• RCM analysis preparation
• Techniques for prioritizing systems for analysis
• Failure Modes and Effect Consequence Analysis for RCM
• Evaluating failure consequences
• Statistics in RCM
• Statistical principles used in RCM
• Use of Weibull analysis in RCM processes
• Selecting the right maintenance tasks for reliability
• How to select preventive maintenance (PM) tasks and intervals
• How to select predictive maintenance (PdM) tasks and intervals
• How to select failure finding tasks and intervals
• Functional maintenance strategies
• When Run-to-Failure is appropriate
• Packaging and implementing RCM results
• When to use a Subject Matter Expert team
• Barriers to implementation and getting buy-in from all levels
• Techniques of Reliability Growth

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