Course Overview

What is FMECA in maintenance?

“Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis” is commonly referred to as FMECA. It is a method according to which potential failures; their impacts and causes are mapped to minimize the loss. FMECA can be particularly useful when it is combined with risk assessment. This way, risks are figured out before any loss to the facility, plant and equipment. FMECA and risk assessment together can save time and cost for the organization so that it can tread on the path of success without any interruption.

What are the pros and cons of FMECA?

Zoe Talent Solutions has designed this course to meet the changing requirements of the world. Now is the time when an expert is needed to determine the risks and avoid them using good and effective measures like the FMECA. The experts and professional trainers of Zoe Talent Solutions understand this fact, and they try their best to align their training with the market’s requirements. Determining the risks in advance and ceasing the loss to happen is the biggest demand of the market; considering this, the trainees of this course, upon completion, would be the experts who can easily merge into the market to solve real-world problems.

Course Objectives

The FMECA & Risk assessment for maintenance purposes course has several key objectives that will enable the trainees to:

• Understand the FMECA and become an expert on this method
• Grasp the FMECA process, principles, methods and templates to apply them to real-world problems to assess the risk for maintenance purposes
• Acquire some facilitator skills like recapitulating, listening, handling frustration and so on
• Comprehend the FMECA theory and adopt the thinking of FMECA
• Learn how and when to use actions like preventive, criticality, risk assessment, corrective actions etc
• Apprehending the techniques in the data gathering process of the FMECA These techniques are the use of proper language during communication with the multidisciplinary team, required facts, detail-level, etc
• Have an overview of the related or similar methods for assessing risk for maintenance purposes
• Understand how to develop a risk assessment program for maintenance purposes and achieve the best results
• Apprehend how the FMECA and risk assessment program collaborates to achieve exceptional outcomes

Training Methodology

The training material of each course of Zoe Talent Solutions is enriched with up-to-date knowledge of the contemporary world, and the instructors ensure that this knowledge is delivered in the best effective way. After completing the course, the trainees are enabled to excel in their careers and meet the expectations of the market. Before commencing each new session, all the course materials are reviewed properly by the expert educators, and they ensure that the course topics are new and up to date. Additionally, the successful completion of the course also depends on the instructors who use a new model developed by Zoe Talent Solutions. The new model’s name is the Do-Review-Learn-Apply, which uses different techniques to improve the partition of the trainees. These techniques are group activities, graded assignments, mini-projects, class readings, etc.

Organisational Benefits

Organizations can acquire several different benefits from the FMECA & Risk Assessment for maintenance purposes course, which are enlisted below:

• Improved staff’s abilities in determining the risks and taking necessary steps to avoid the risks
• The cost and time of the organization will be saved because of proper Maintenance
• In-depth understating of the FEMCA and current trends of this method
• Enhanced comprehension and application of the FMECA method due to witnessing the participation of the other trainees
• The trainee will understand the need and advantages of the support and how the participants can help ease the process
• A skilled trainee will have only one goal in mind while organizing, leading and evaluating: to assemble the experts’ skills and opinions in the best possible way
• Better technical, strategical and process expertise of the staff

Personal Benefits

The individuals will be able to harvest different personal benefits from the FMECA & Risk Assessment for Maintenance Purposes course. These personal benefits are enlisted below:

• Understanding of the FMECA and how the FMECA tools and techniques are used
• Understand the role of the trainee as a facilitator of establishing firm cooperation between the experts and utilizing their skills
• Understand how to avoid being involved in the content and learn about its pitfalls
• Learning FMECA-related software and program
• Improving career opportunities
• Be content in times of frustration and handle disagreements gracefully
• Recognize and respect the skills of every participant of the multidisciplinary team

Who Should Attend?

• Mechanical engineers whose role is to maintain and repair the organization’s assets
• Mechanical technicians interested in Maintenance and repair ensure that international standards are appropriately followed
• Supervisors and operators
• Any individual interested in learning about risk assessment for maintenance purposes
• Worker in the field of Maintenance
• A facilitator team leader
• An individual interested in working with teams and getting the best outcomes
• Any person who thinks that he/she needs to improve their understanding of others

Course Outline

Important topics that are crucial for the successful completion of the FMECA & Risk Assessment for Maintenance Purposes course are given below:

Module 1: Introduction to FMECA

• Major topics of the FMECA
• The objective of the FMECA
• FMECA and its relationship with systems engineering lifecycles

Module 2: Facilitation

• What are facilitation skills?
• Who is a facilitator?
• Duties of the facilitator

Module 3: Some important Facilitation skills and Theories 

• Solving the problem (FMECA starting case)
• Getting feedback (Communication process theory, model and skills)
• Interrogation
• Good listing skills
• A coordinating role in the team
• Solving problems in the multidisciplinary team

Module 4: Basics of the FMECA Method and Implementation

• Understanding the process and implementation of the template
• Analytical grammar (Information ordering theory)
• Asking questions (Theory)

Module 5: Assessing Risk

• Definition of risk.
• Emergency response plans.
• Activation of Emergency response plans.
• Plan of action during an emergency
• Plan of action after an emergency

Module 6: Risk Assessment – An Overview

• Define risk assessment.
• Importance of risk assessment
• Types of risks.
• The responsibility of undertaking the risk assessment process
• What is the best time to carry out a risk assessment?

Module 7: Types of Risk Assessment

• Fire
• Manual handling
• Display Screen Equipment (DSE)
• COSHH

Module 8: Steps to carry out a Risk Assessment

• Risk identification
• Who might be affected by this potential harm?
• Assessing the severity and probability of the risk.
• Developing the precautions.
• Control implementation
• Noting down the findings.
• Checking the assessment and reassessing in case of flaws.

Module 9: FMECA Process

• De Bono and Ned Hermann preference thinking theory
• Presenting skills
• Feedback sessions
• Working on the reluctant behaviour
• New teaches and presentation preparation

Module 10: Evaluation of the Quality of Information and FMECA

• Networking and management of stakeholder’s theory
• Stakeholder inventory and how to reach out
• Motivational factors theory
• Managing the project and implementing theory

Module 11: The Results of FMECA

• Personal points of learning
• Overall feedback
• Success and closure of training