Start Date: 7 Dec,2026
End Date: 11 Dec,2026
Duration: 5 Days
Overview:
This course equips participants with essential strategies to improve maintenance and reliability performance while reducing asset ownership costs. It covers foundational maintenance practices and introduces key reliability methods like FMECA, TPM, RCM, and RCFA. Participants will learn to apply these strategies through practical maintenance tactics, including predictive, preventive, detective, and corrective approaches.
Course Objectives:
- Compare their current maintenance strategies to industry best practice
Understand the benefits and costs of alternative maintenance strategies
Define maintenance strategies for a specific system using a decision support process and tools
Analyse failures and determine the root causes using the tools and templates provided
Implement reliability improvement methodologies correctly
Prepare maintenance schedules and procedures for implementation
Course Content:
1. Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability Management
- The cost and risk of equipment failure
- Pillars of excellence in maintenance
- Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
- Overview of FMECA, TPM, RCM, RBI, and RCFA
2. Establish a Framework for Reliability
- Build a competent team to drive reliability in each area
- Asset identification, classification, and criticality grading
- Define asset performance and efficiency standards
- Anticipate the physical causes of failure and degradation
- Anticipate the human causes
- Analyse the effects and quantify the risks
- Practical application of failure and risk analysis
3. Failure Management Strategy Development
Risk-based approaches to failure management
Select proactive maintenance tactics on the basis of costs and risks
Preventive maintenance tasks and intervals
Predictive maintenance tasks and intervals
Failure detection and function testing tasks and intervals
Human error reduction through equipment, procedural and skill upgrades
Repair-after-failure strategies
Practical application and open discussion sessions of the case study
4. Failure Management Strategy Implementation
Aggressive defect reporting to feed the backlog
Plan for quality, time and safety
Budget for spare parts and make stocking decisions
Schedule maintenance to minimise operational downtime
Use appropriate metrics to drive defect elimination
Practical application and open discussion sessions
5. Root Cause of Failure Analysis
Failure reporting, analysi,s and corrective action system requirements
Use failure data and Pareto analysis to identify and stratify improvement opportunities
Types of evidence, preservation, and use
Organise the RCFA and apply the process
Practical RCFA case study using an MS Excel-based tool
Review of failure forensic techniques
Targeted Audience:
- Reliability Engineers
- Maintenance Planners
- Maintenance Supervisors
- Maintenance Engineers
- Operations and Process Team Leaders
