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 Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is a popular destination amongst travelers from all around the world. Once just a little fishing village, Amsterdam is now a major international city after having become an important port during the 1600s. Throughout its history, the city has had many famous residents, including artists, philosophers and other historical figures. There is much to discover along Amsterdam's quaint streets and picturesque canals. So much so that a flight to Amsterdam comes with a guarantee of cultural and historical attractions that will provide memories to last a lifetime. Amsterdam is a hotbed of culture for travelers of all ages and tastes.
Things to do and places to visit in Amsterdam
From the moment passengers step off their flight to Amsterdam, they will find it a friendly city with a lively atmosphere. Its flat geography means that it is perfect for exploring by bicycle. If you're feeling less active, it the city is also well-served by public transport. The so-called Venice of the North has something for every visitor. Culture vultures have museums, galleries and theaters to see, Families can visit the zoo or the Science Center NEMO.
When visiting Amsterdam, be sure to:
- See the picture-perfect and colorful houses of the Grachtengordel district.
- See the iconic works of one of Holland's most famous artists at the Van Gogh Museum.
- Visit the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
- Browse through the extensive collection of fantastic art in the Rijksmusem.
- Wander through the blaze of colors that is the Singel Flower Market.
- See the city at a leisurely pace on a canal cruise.
- Marvel at one of the city's many historic churches.
- Learn about life aboard a ship at the National Maritime Museum.
- Discover the Begijnhof's well-preserved medieval architecture.
- See animals of all kinds, as well as the butterfly pavilion and aquarium, at the Artis Zoo.