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MT02

Maintenance – A to Z of Best Practices

 

Module 2: Optimising Maintenance Activities

 

Introduction

Maintenance costs form a significant portion of the overall venture budget.  It is the job of the maintenance professional to optimise the maintenance effort using a structured and systematic approach.  This module helps the delegate to identify the technical causes of overspend and provides tools to effectively control the maintenance activities using maintenance Best Practices and associated technologies.

Objectives

By virtue of dynamic participation in this seminar it is to be expected that delegates will make a substantial, positive impact on the maintenance regime within their home organisation.  At the end of this seminar participants will have:

*      An understanding of a range of equipment failures and their implications to the operational organisation.

*      The ability to design a maintenance plan for the upkeep and maintenance inspections of static and rotating plant.

*      A practical approach to apply inspection, monitoring and repair techniques

*      A practical approach to developing an action plan to utilise these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy, and measuring benefits

Organisational Impact

Regular and planned maintenance of static and rotating plant is vital to the budgetary success of the operations organisation.  On completion of this seminar the delegate will be able to critically analyse the methodologies employed within the organisation and instigate improvements where required.

Personal Impact

Technical knowledge is key to effective control and peer respect within any maintenance organisation; when this is achieved personal satisfaction follows.  This seminar will give the delegate the required level of technical knowledge and skill to achieve that personal satisfaction.

Core Competencies

*       Understanding of failure mechanisms as applied to static and rotating equipment.

*       Ability to put in place preventive measures to avoid equipment failures

*       Interface with and control NDT & PdM service providers

The Delegates

It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management attend this workshop. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable course

The Process

This workshop is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. The program is highly interactive with many discussion and facilitated practice sessions.

 


 

The Programme Contents

Day 1 - Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis

*       Causes of Machinery Failure

*       Wear Mechanisms

*       Fatigue,  Fretting and  Corrosion

*       Fundamental Machine Problems

*       Balance,    Alignment and  Machinery Mounting Problems

Day 2 - Reliability & Statistics

*       Component Failure

*       Plain and   Rolling Element Bearings

*       Seals

*       Elementary Statistics

*       Statistical Data

*       Reliability Models

Day 3 - Equipment Inspection Techniques – Static Equipment

*       Risk Based Inspection RBI

*       Non Destructive Testing - NDT

*       Ultrasonics  UT

*       Radioactive RT

*       Magnetic Particle MPI

*       Die Penetrant DPI

*       Visual Inspections VT

Day 4 - Condition Based Maintenance – Rotating Equipment

*       The Condition Based Approach

*       What to Monitor and Where

*       Condition Monitoring Systems

*       Trending of Monitored Data

*       Frequency of Measurement

*       Parameter Symptom Limits

*       Remaining Life Prediction

*       General Purpose CM

*       Thermal Monitoring & Imaging

*       Lubricant Monitoring & Analysis

*       How to Represent Vibration

Day 5 - Vibration Analysis

*       Vibration Monitoring

*       What is Vibration

*       How to Measure Vibration

*       Where to Measure Vibration

*       Overall and Spectral Representation

*       The Big Five Machine Faults

*       Detecting Faults Using Vibration

*       Diagnosing Faults Using Vibration