Course Overview

What is the objective of maintenance and reliability? Being a plant engineer means facing a real challenge in how to manage things going around you. Gaining knowledge of best practices in maintenance and reliability and to learn how to implement these practices is the key to a successful management strategy and better aligning to company goals and objectives.

This Zoe training course provides a no-nonsense, practical and real-world systematic approach to best-managed maintenance. Participants’ specific needs and concerns are also addressed during the training so that they can go back to their workplace and immediately apply what they’ve learned. This Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices course can also be adopted as part of a company’s regular qualified maintenance & reliability program.

Course Objectives

Participants attending the Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices training programme will:

• Interpret the skills used to translate an organization’s business goals into appropriate maintenance and reliability goals that support and contribute to the organization’s business results
• Learn and practise the activities used to gauge and assess the current capabilities of the equipment & processes in terms of their reliability, availability, maintainability & criticality
• Practise and exercise on activities which are used to select & apply the utmost appropriate maintenance practices, so that the equipment & processes remain to provide and deliver their intended capabilities in the safest, securest and most cost-effective manner
• Learn and apply the processes for confirming that the maintenance & reliability staff is the most qualified and best assigned to achieve the maintenance & reliability organization goals
• Learn the skills used to get the maintenance & reliability work done. This involves scheduling and planning of activities, quality assurance of maintenance activities, stores and inventory management
• Acquire the knowledge of how to select Maintenance & Reliability benchmarks

Training Methodology

The programme will be interactive and practical. There will be activities in groups as well as individual exercises and everyone will get an opportunity to discuss their experience and issues with maintenance & reliability management problems. Each day will end with time to create an action plan for delegates’ continuing development.

This collaborative Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices Course will comprise the following training methods:

• Lectures
• Seminars & Presentations
• Group Discussions
• Assignments
• Case Studies & Functional Exercises

Zoe Talent Solutions follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model.

Organisational Benefits

Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices Course can benefit in the following ways:

• Learn how to design a maintenance program & strategy using RCM
• Understand several types of CBM and the technologies used
• Be able to design balanced scorecards and how to align performance with organizational goals

Personal Benefits

Individuals who participate in this Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices Course can gain from it in the following ways:

• Learn approaches of maintenance and other maintenance practices
• Understand the difference between planning & scheduling
• Interpret the objective of maintenance storerooms
• Be familiar with TPM pillars

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for plant engineers working in any of maintenance & reliability field who need to sharpen their maintenance management skills and gain more knowledge in order to increase efficiencies (productivity) and uptime at their industrial plant or building facility.

Also operation and quality engineers, technicians who need to understand how things are being done around the plant from the perspective of maintenance work.

Those who work with equipment and systems at industrial plants, commercial building, or private facilities, whether as general maintenance personnel, in cross-training programs, a technician, or an engineer, you will find this course extremely useful.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to M & R, Culture & Leadership

• Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices
• Leadership & organizational culture
• Strategic framework: Vision, Mission & Goals
• Change Management
• Reliability Culture
• Measure of performance

Module 2: Understanding Maintenance

• What is maintenance?
• A new paradigm of maintenance – Capacity assurance
• Maintenance Approaches
• Other maintenance practices
• Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Maintenance quality
• Maintenance assessment and improvement

Module 3: Work Management: Planning & Scheduling

• Workflow & roles
• Work classification & prioritization
• Planning process
• Scheduling process
• Turnarounds & shutdowns
• Measure of performance

Module 4: Materials, Parts & Inventory Management

• Types of inventory
• Physical layout and storage equipment
• Optimizing tools & techniques
• Measure of performance

Module 5: Measuring & Designing for Reliability & Maintainability

• Defining & Measuring reliability & other terms
• Designing & Building for Maintenance & Reliability

Module 6: Operator Driven Reliability

• The role of operations
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Workplace management: 5S
• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Measure of performance

Module 7: Maintenance Optimization

• Understanding failures & maintenance strategies
• Maintenance Strategy – RCM
• Maintenance Strategy – CBM
• Other maintenance strategies

Module 8: Managing Performance & Workforce management

• Identifying performance measures
• Data collection & data quality
• Benchmarking & Benchmarks
• Employee life cycle
• Understanding the generation gap
• Communication skills
• People development