Maintenance Leadership and Technology Best Practices

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
07 Dec 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Maintenance Leadership and Technology Best Practices

Introduction

Maintenance Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. This comprehensive 5-day training course has been designed to benefit both qualified new professionals as well as experienced professionals who might need to refresh their skills. It covers all the fundamentals of Maintenance that a suitably qualified professional would be expected to carry out during his duty starting with the first steps and building up in a staircase fashion to a fully functional maintenance organization.

Objectives

    At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

    • To provide a step-by-step guide to maintenance best practice starting with foundations and building up to best practice that will deliver maximum business benefits
    • To instruct Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
    • To provide opportunities to discuss the application of these best practices
    • Provide an opportunity to learn these concepts through practical exercises

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Maintenance supervisors and superintendents
  • Reliability engineers
  • Operational professionals who are interested in maintenance reliability and asset management
  • Safety and integrity professionals
  • Other professionals involved in process improvement

Course Outline

Day 1: An Overview of Key Maintenance Work Processes

  • Introduction to Maintenance Management

  • Definitions of key terms

  • Types of Maintenance - Reactive, planned and improvement jobs, Preventive and Proactive

 Maintenance Management Systems

  • Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

  • Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

  • Developing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators

 Day 2: Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy

  • Maintenance Organisation Structure and Policies

  • Developing and Implementing a Preventive Maintenance Program

  • Applying Reliability Based principles to Maintenance Strategy Development

Maintenance Logistics and Cost Control

  • Managing Maintenance Spare Parts and Logistics

  • Optimizing Spare Parts Inventory Levels

  • Maintenance Budgeting

  • Controlling Maintenance Costs

  • Introduction to Life Cycle Cost Concepts

 Day 3: Maintenance Team Work

  • Engineering, Production & Maintenance Teams

  • Benefits of Integrated teams

  • Motivation and empowerment

  • Total Productive Maintenance Concepts

  • Implementing Team-Based Continuous Improvement in Maintenance

  • Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis - Causes of Machinery Failure in Rotating Equipment

  • Cavitation in Pumps

  • Tripping of Turbines

  • Surging in Compressors

  • Wear Mechanisms: Fatigue, Fretting, and Corrosion

  • Fundamental Machine Problems: Balance Problems, Alignment Problems, Machinery Mounting Problems

  • Fundamentals of Maintenance and Asset Management

Day 4: Failure Analysis and Reliability

  • Elementary Statistics and Standards

  • Reliability Models

  • Learning from Major Failures Case Studies in Process Industries

  • Learning from Major Failures Case Studies in Oil and Gas Industries

  • Root Cause Analysis and Extractions of Specific and Generic Lessons

  • Reflection on Why Systems Fail

Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability

  • Further Reliability Definitions and Standards

  • Examples of the Planning Process

  • Hazard Function and Bath Tub Curve

  • Weibull Analysis

  • Case Studies from Rotating Equipment

  • Case Studies of Major Failures in other Industries

 Day 5: Condition Based Maintenance

  • General Purpose CBM

  • The P-F Curve

  • Principles of Vibration Monitoring

  • Thermal Monitoring

  • Acoustic Emission

  • Lubricant Monitoring

 Decision Analysis in Asset Management

  • Main Criticism of Existing Management of Computerised Maintenance Systems

  • The Asset Management Framework

  • The Decision-Making Grid Approaches

  • Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategies

  • Integration of RCM, TPM and CBM Approaches

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