Course Description

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. The first module of this course 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 second module then helps you decide in a rational way which activities are best done with internal resources and which are best outsourced. Tools and techniques are introduced which will help you ensure that outsourcing contracts are comprehensive and avoid the common pitfalls.

Course Objectives

·         Understand how to decide rationally what maintenance activities to outsource and what is not

·         Learn the features, functions and benefits of lean maintenance contracts

·         Understand the different types of maintenance contracts and when/how to apply them

·         Learn how to define service levels and monitor the contractor performance

·         Recognize the pitfalls

·         Understand how to evaluate the delivered performance of all parties involved

·         Learn how to implement maintenance contract management

Who Should Attend?

·         managers 

·         professionals negotiating, managing and verifying maintenance contracts

·         Anyone who wishes to update themselves on Reliability, Maintenance, Maintenance Contracts & Outsourcing

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management

·         The total cost of maintenance

·         Best Practice Reliability and Maintenance processes

·         Elements of Best practice Asset Management

·         Auditing performance

·         Information requirements

·         Asset Management Team-work Skills

DAY 2

·         Asset Management - definitions

·         Reliability& Maintenance Information requirements

·         Inventory Impact and Costs

·         Selecting Reliability & Maintenance Tactics

·         Predictive maintenance & condition monitoring

·         Developing and selecting Predictive maintenance systems

DAY 3

·         Maintenance & Reliability Mgt Performance Management

·         Four important reliability functions

·         Different sources of reliability data

·         Lessons learned from the airlines

·         Reliability & Failure analysis best Practices

·         Failure Analysis Best Practice Software

DAY 4

·         Best Practice Criticality assessment methodologies

·         Best Practice Equipment Life Cycle management

·         Life Cycle Reliability assessment Best Practices

·         Equipment healthcare contracts

·         Developing best practice Maintenance Programs

·         Maintenance Program justification techniques

·         Cost justification Best Practice software

DAY 5

·         Case study

·         Planning

·         Focusing on high risks

·         Optimising spares

·         Right type of maintenance

·         History recording

·         Life cycle asset management

·         Concepts, questions and answer session