Course Description

INTRODUCTION

Modern Maintenance Technologies provides great opportunities to optimize the performance of your systems and equipment to achieve maximum Return On Investment (ROI). By reducing costs and downtime, while achieving high levels of safety and quality you will be able to get the best out of your assets. This Modern Maintenance Technologies training course introduces participants to the skills and knowledge areas of essential maintenance technologies and methodologies of today, associated with equipment, systems, people and management. It demonstrates both the background to each technology, and its practical application to achieve the best bottom-line results.

Objectives

At the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

Apply modern maintenance technologies & methodologies in the appropriate way

Understand how each of these technologies contribute to maintenance efficiency

Explain how these technologies interact with and support each other

Achieve the best results in practicing these technologies

Develop an action plan to utilize these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy and to measure the benefits

The benefit of this course:

The organization will understand modern maintenance technologies and methodologies

Learn fast how other companies are using modern methodologies to improve their maintenance performance

Gain insight in common pitfalls and key success factors

Know how to implement improvement actions successfully

The training course provides the organisation with instruments to improve maintenance management in both short as well as long term.

Gain understanding and practical insight of asset management and modern technologies and methodologies

Improve level of personal knowledge

Work more effectively by applying a risk based approach

Add value for themselves

Be able to plan and develop a future career

Course Outline

Day 1

Introduction & Overview – Challenging the Traditional Approaches to Maintenance

Asset Management: A Business-like Approach of Maintenance

Cost / Benefit Thinking: Spending the Right Amount of Maintenance

Applying Basic Optimization Tools to Support Cost / Benefit Decisions

Introduction to Risk

Risk in Maintenance & Operations

Day 2

Risk Based Maintenance (RBM)

Deterioration: The Way Assets Could Fail

Representation of Risk

The Seven Steps of Risk Based Maintenance (RBM) – The Methodology

Failure Behavior

Choosing the Right Maintenance Task

Day 3

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Multiple Realities

Subjective Views

Effective Problem Solving

Cause and Effect Relations

RCA Methodologies – Examples and Application

Day 4

Process Audits, Maintenance Assessments & Benchmarking

Where are we now? – Introduction to Process Audits, Benchmarking & Assessments

Process Audit – basic theory

Auditing in Practice

Maintenance Assessment – basic theory

Execution of a Maintenance Assessment of the Work Planning & Control Process

Benchmarking – basic theory

Benchmark Studies

How to Interpret Benchmark Results

Day 5

Performance Management & Decision Support Tools

Defining Performance

Applying Specific Performance Indicators and Process Parameters to Measure the Performance of Assets, Activities and Processes

Performance Management: Influencing the Behavior of People to Gain Better Results

Applying Sophisticated Decision Support Tools to Optimize Maintenance Performance