Rotating Equipment Optimization with Continuous Reliability Improvement CRI

Introduction:

This program is designed to provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of how to use a combined predictive and preventive maintenance approach coupled with proper failure monitoring to achieve maximum reliability and performance from rotating equipment.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this progranm, participants will be able to:

• Apply the proven methodologies and templates which are introduced.

• Focus on key areas of reliability.

• Understand the nature of failure and how this affects the performance of rotating equipment.

• Make the right maintenance choices for strategic equipment.

• Reduce the impact of plant downtime.

• Unlock the true potential of all of their people.

Targeted Audience:

• The operation, Technical Production & Service Professionals.

• Technical Professionals responsible for maintenance and repair of equipment.

• Professionals involved in inspection and reliability.

• Technical Professionals dealing with risk assessment and integrity analysis.

• Technicians dealing with regulating and metering and other measurements.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Understanding The Link Between Reliability and Competitive Advantage:

• Definition of Reliability.

• Reliability metrics.

• Strategic Importance of Reliability.

• Assessing current performance.

• Making the right strategic choices.

Unit 2:

Using Reliability Modeling to Establish Inherent Reliability:

• Basic modeling building blocks.

• Deterministic models.

• Probabilistic models.

• Markov chains.

• Monte Carlo models.

Unit 3:

Understanding The Nature of Failures to Make The Best Response:

• Origins of failure and its types.

• Six common patterns.

• Analyzing failure patterns.

• Weibull analysis.

• Maintenance tasks.

Unit 4:

Optimising Your Failure Management to Ensure That Maintenance is Cost-Effective:

• Risk assessment & criticality.

• Equipment functions.

• Functional failures.

• Failure modes and effects analysis and consequences.

• Maintenance task selection.

• Producing a practical maintenance plan.

Unit 5:

Setting Up a Continuous Reliability Improvement Process to Improve Performance:

• Assessing the improvement potential versus the costs.

• Obtaining senior management support.

• Establishing the project framework.

• Technical aspects.

• Human considerations.

• Likely results.