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

• Understand how you create reliable equipment
• Know the right systems that deliver zero breakdown maintenance
• Know what practices to introduce into your operation to achieve zero breakdowns
• Identify where to target your efforts in preventing breakdowns
• Develop an operations-wide strategy to eliminate defects that cause failures

OE champions, Maintenance managers, engineers & planners, reliability and maintenance engineers, facilities and utilities managers, top level maintenance technicians, operations and production managers & engineers, plant engineers, design engineers, reliability engineers & technicians, operators, safety engineers, risk engineers, CMMS and spare parts personnel, safety engineers and anyone who is involved in reliability engineering.

Limitations of Machines and Materials

• Understand How Machines are Designed and the Limits They Must Live Within
• Strength of Materials Limitations, The Degradation Cycle, The Overload Cycle

Determining the Reliability of Parts

• What is Reliability? Drawing the Reliability Curve
• Failure Rate Variation
• ‘Reading’ Failure Curve Shapes

Reliability of Complex Parts

• Modelling Reliability of Complex Parts
• Reliability Mathematics in ‘Random Failure’ Zone
• Failure Rate and Reliability Curves
• The Odds of a Part Surviving For Longer

Reliability Prediction

• Weibull Curves for Failure Prediction
• Maintenance Strategies for Parts and Components
• Reliability of Series Systems, Reliability of Parallel Systems

Reliability of Machines

• Reliability of Machines in Series Process
• Improving the Reliability of Machines
• Meeting The Reliability Challenge
• Modelling Machine Reliability

Instilling Reliability Principles into Maintenance

• Best Practice Reliability Engineering Application
• Quality Function Deployment
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Crow–AMSAA Reliability Growth Plotting

Introduction to Profit Centered Maintenance

• Turning Maintenance into a Profit Centre
• Develop a Plan to Reach Mastery
• Turn Objectives into Systematic Activities
• Elements of a Good Management System
• Strategic Business Importance of Reliability

Maintenance Strategy Choices

• Maintenance Strategies for Risk Reduction
• Maintenance Strategy Selection
• Move from Reactive

Selecting Maintenance to Deliver Reliability

• Equipment Reliability Strategies
• Precision Operation Extends Productive Life
• Failure Prediction Mathematics
• Implications of Reliability on Maintenance
• Strategies for Reliability Improvement

Maintenance: Risk Management Strategy

• Base Maintenance on Operating Risk Matrix
• Match Maintenance and Operating Practices to Equipment Criticality
• Condition Monitoring to Optimise Availability
• Determine Component-Based PM Frequency
• Benefits of Failure Elimination

Improving Maintenance & Reliability Results

• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• How RCFA Contributes To Improvement
• Risk Identification and Removal Worksheets
• Improving Reliability by Setting Maintenance KPIs and Measuring Outcomes

Maximum Life Cycle Profit Maintenance

• When You Design a Plant You are Designing a Business
• Design and Operating Cost Totally Optimised Risk (DOCTOR)
• Eliminate Defects to Prevent Problems
• Defects and Failures True Costs
• Benefits of Reducing Operating Risk

Managing Risk in Your Business and Operations

Precision Maintenance & Precision Practices for Failure-Free Operation

Getting Operators to Drive Equipment Reliability

Modernize, Systematize & Standardize Your Maintenance Processes

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