Start Date : 5 Oct ,2025
End Date : 9 Oct ,2025
Duration : 5 Days
Overview:
To survive in today’s world of 'lean and mean' operations, we cannot wait for breakdowns. As a matter of fact, we should make responding to breakdowns the exception in our daily workload, not the norm. A successful and effective maintenance operation has to break away from the 'fix it when it breaks' mentality. The ultimate goal of the maintenance department should be to 'stop' things from breaking, increase assets availability and reliability and do so with the lowest possible cost.This has certainly put an immense pressure on the maintenance department management team. In this course, various best practices will be presented that deliver the above objectives.
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate the latest concepts and techniques required for managing or supervising a maintenance unit
Examine the organizational and managerial considerations for effective maintenance work
Apply techniques to measure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Distinguish and optimize the special characteristics of maintenance activities
Debunk safety myths safety and identify unsafe acts and conditions
Identify common maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and develop the maintenance department scorecard
Course Content:
1. Introduction
Fundamental principles
Acronyms
Plant identification
Safety systems
2. Thermal plant configuration and operations
Review of plants across Australia (coal and gas fired)
Fuel sources
Boiler plant
The steam and water cycle
Subcritical and supercritical boilers
Subcritical and supercritical boilers
Turbine plant
Condensate and feed water heating systems
Generator plant
Electrical systems
Cooling water systems
Balance of plant system
3. Gas turbine plant configuration and operations
Gas turbines
Fuel sources
Turning gear and starter systems
Spin modes
Fire suppression systems
Air intake, air bleed, cooling and drainage systems
Compressor water wash systems
4. Gas turbine operations and control
Control systems
Protection systems
Operating parameters
Operating procedures
5. Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) plant configuration and operations
- Diverters
Heating elements
Cogeneration
Cogeneration plants in Australia
The electricity network
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Electricity spot market
Transmission and distribution
Remote systems
- Case studies
6. Plant operations and control
Hazards and the appropriate precautions
Control systems
Typical elements of plant behaviour
Burner management and boiler automatic control systems
Plant permissive and interlocks
Alarms
Plant trends
Protection systems
Standby plant
Plant thermal performance and controllable losses
7. Plant maintenance components
Maintenance options – essential maintenance VS deferred maintenance
Condition monitoring – Typical operator issues and problems – Plant history and engineering solutions
Maintenance priorities
8. Renewable sources of alternative generation
Physical aspects of hydro, wind, solar, geothermal etc.
How renewable options integrate with conventional generation
Carbon capture and sequestration
Environmental licensing and controls
9. Troubleshooting and error management – evaluating case studies
- Competent, safe and reliable operation of plant
A abnormal plant and process conditions and the associated incident response mechanisms
Appreciating inaccuracies with data logging
Error management
Troubleshooting
Case studies
10. Preventing incidents in an insightful way
Communication skills improving your insight and intuitive skills to approach people in the right way
Questioning skills improving your ability to ask the operator relevant, accurate questions that can help improve design efficiencies
Providing constructive feedback that’s well received Questions
Course review and discussion
Practical assignment
Targeted Audience:
This course is designed to assist in the effective interaction of the day-to-day management of a plant. This will be realised through improved awareness of plant operating principles and practicalities. Those from plants who will benefit from attending are operating staff, engineering staff, technical staff and supervisory staff.
