Introduction
Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. This workshop delivers many practical and new Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices concepts and tools. You will discuss these concepts and practice using practical tools in case studies and discussion groups.
The costs associated with equipment downtime and reduced production can be significant. Learning how to effectively manage all aspects of your industrial facility is a must.
This workshop is a combination of instructor lead topic areas and class discussions. Interactive discussions will allow you to hear and learn best in class applications relating to maintenance planning and cost management strategies. You will have the opportunity to ask lots of questions in order to consider how best to apply these tools and techniques in your organization.
- Maintenance best practice improves the competitive position
- Initiatives such as Six Sigma & Lean depend on reliable equipment
- Technical and people aspects are fully covered
- Hard and soft copy of practical improvement tools are provided
- Important points are reinforced by workshop sessions
Course Objectives of Lowering Life Cycle Cost Equipment
- Evaluate and justify your maintenance programs using Value = Benefit – Cost.
- Apply Life Cycle cost and risk planning to your facility assets.
- Target Maintainability and/or Reliability in the development of your facility maintenance plans.
- Learn the PLAN, DO, REVIEW cycle of continuous improvement.
- Apply the theory of this session using practical case studies.
- Practice using improvement techniques
Course Methodology of Lowering Life Cycle Cost Equipment
This workshop is a combination of instructor lead topic areas and class discussions. Interactive discussions will allow you to hear and learn best in class applications relating to maintenance planning and cost management strategies.
Organizational Impact of Lowering Life Cycle Cost Equipment
By sending your staff on this seminar you will achieve:
- Lower life cycle costs for equipment
- More reliable equipment
- Lower maintenance costs
- Better planning
- Improved team working between maintenance and production
- Increased equipment performance
Personal Impact of Lowering Life Cycle Cost Equipment
- Strategies aligned to the business goals
- Introduction to the latest tools and techniques
- Exposure to best practices drawn from a range of different industries
- Methodology to enable successful permanent changes
- Application of the most appropriate reliability improvement technique
- Consideration of technical and human aspects of reliability improvement
Who Should Attend?
It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and technical support staff including leadership and management attend this workshop.
- Planners
- Maintenance Supervisors
- Engineers
- Crafts and Tradesmen
- Reliability Engineers
- Operations Supervisors
Course Outlines of Lowering Life Cycle Cost Equipment
Day 1: Asset Cost Management Introduction
- Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
- The total cost of maintenance
- Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
- Elements of asset management best practice
- Auditing performance
- Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
- Open discussion sessions
Day 2: Laying the Groundwork
- Team-work maintenance, operations, stores
- The importance of standards such as PAS 55, JA1011
- Corporate asset management expectations
- Asset performance expectations
- The forms of asset failure and degradation
- The causes and nature of asset failure and degradation
- The effects, cost and risks of asset degradation
- Practical Application and Open Discussion sessions
Day 3: Applying the Value-based Process
- Breaking the cycle of failure and degradation
- Select PM tactics on the basis of costs and risks
- How to determine PM intervals
- Condition-based maintenance types and the PF-curve
- The four important reliability functions
- Implementing best practice maintenance programs
- Optimizing spares to support the maintenance program
- The maintenance program cost and risk-based justification
- Practical Application and Open Discussion Sessions
Day 4: Ensuring the Continuity of the Value-based Process
- Complete the PLAN, DO, REVIEW Improvement cycle with FRACAS
- Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System requirements
- Structure and code data collection to support reliability analysis
- How to quantify chronic failures and losses
- Use Pareto analysis and stratification to focus the value-based analysis
- Quantify losses in life cycle terms
- Hypothesize root causes of failure and verify on the basis of evidence
- Reliability Analysis Case Study
- Discussion of software and templates to support analysis
Day 5: Supporting Process that Lower Life-cycle costs
- Planning and scheduling best practice
- Cost-effective man-power and skills deployment
- Performance indicators to drive continuous improvement
- Overall review of concepts learned
About Paris
Lying on the River Seine, Paris is commonly referred to as the city for lovers, but it's actually a fantastic place for anyone to visit and explore. It's full of history, art, literature and amazing architecture for starters, but is also well known as being home to high fashion, which makes it a popular shopping destination. Visitors to the French Capital will find both high-end designer stores and quirky boutiques. The attractions of Paris range for art museums to shopping to simply taking a walk and soaking up the atmosphere. To top it all off, Paris has plenty of superb food and drink, in case there weren't already enough reasons to travel to Paris.
Things to do and places to visit in Paris
Anyone who travels to Paris is in for a treat, as it is a beautiful city full of atmosphere. Many of Paris' attractions are world-famous, but it's also a city where you can find hidden gems. Taking a flight to Paris for a short visit is really like visiting a number of different cities, as all of its neighbourhoods, or arrondissements, have their own distinct character. Examples include the medieval Latin Quarter and the bohemian Marais. Each and every one is worth exploring.
Great things to do in Paris include:
- Checking out the views from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- Seeing renowned masterpieces, including the Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
- Taking a tour of the impressive, albeit slightly creepy, Paris Catacombs.
- Marvelling at the beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral.
- Browsing the designer stores around the Champs-Elysees.
- Munching snails in one of the city's haute cuisine eateries.
- Visiting the graves of luminaries including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison at Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
- Admiring the imposing Arc de Triomphe.
- Wandering around the boutiques of the Marais district.
- Watching the famous Paris St-Germain football team play.
- Taking in the Impressionist art at the Musee D'Orsay.
- Watching the world go by from a cafe terrace.
- Visiting the distinctive Centre Georges Pompidou.