Rotating Equipment Failure Analysis and Reliability Optimization
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Rotating Equipment Failure Analysis and Reliability Optimization Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, 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
Who Should Attend?
Personnel who should attend are:
- Reliability Engineers
- Maintenance Planners
- Maintenance Supervisors
- Maintenance Engineers
- Operations and Process Team Leaders
Course Outlines:
Understanding the link between Reliability and competitive advantage
- Definition of Reliability
- Probability of failure
- Reliability metrics
- Strategic Importance of Reliability
- Assessing current performance
- Making the right strategic choices
Using reliability modeling to establish inherent reliability
- Basic modeling building blocks
- Deterministic models
- Probabilistic models
- Markov chains
- Monte Carlo models
- Case study examples
Understanding the nature of failures in order to make the best response
- Origins of failure
- Failure types
- Six common patterns
- Analyzing failure patterns
- Weibull analysis
- Maintenance tasks
Optimizing your failure management to ensure that maintenance is cost-effective
- Risk assessment & criticality
- Equipment functions
- Functional failures
- Failure modes and effects analysis
- Failure consequences
- Maintenance task selection
- Producing a practical maintenance plan
Setting up a continuous reliability improvement process in order to improve performance
- Assessing the improvement potential versus the costs
- Obtaining senior management support
- Establishing the project framework
- Technical aspects
- Human considerations
- Likely results