Predictive Maintenance & Reliability Course

▪ Groundwork
o Goals of program
o Report card
o How much is enough?

▪ PPM Economics
o Past sins
o Costs of setup and ongoing costs
o True breakdown costs o Case study

▪ Justifying (selling) PM and PdM expenditures
o Some benefits of PPM o Selling PM/PdM
o Benefits of PM/PdM

▪ Basic Understanding of Preventive Maintenance
o What is PM?
o Understanding what PM is supposed to accomplish and the critical event
o Appropriate PM strategy for the 3 equipment life cycles and 6 failure modes
o Maintenance improvement curve- how to get the most bang for your buck

▪ CMMS approaches to PPM
o Steps to install a PPM system o Survey instructions
o PM and PdM systems increase professionalism

▪ Short repairs and high productivity
▪ Reliability enhancement programs
o RCM
o PMO

▪ PM Details for effectiveness
o Four types of task lists
o PM frequency and its effect on breakdown

▪ Task list development
▪ Guidelines for involvement with predictive techniques
o Questions to ask before PdM
o Oil analysis
o Vibration analysis
o Temperature measurement
o Ultrasonic inspection
o Advanced visual techniques
o Other methods of predictive maintenance
o TLC-Tighten, Lubricate, clean

▪ Management of PM activity
o Planning and Scheduling PM activity
o Access to Equipment
o Interruptive maintenance and non-interruptive maintenance
o Metrics
o Outsourcing PM

▪ Task list analysis
o Complete analysis of task lists (line by line)

▪ Advanced Concepts- PM at the next level
o P-F Curve o Statistical Analysis o PCR

▪ Personnel issues
o Staffing the PM Effort
o What kind of personality to look for in a PM inspector
o How to insure that PMs are done as designed

▪ TLC (Tighten, Lubricate and Clean)
▪ The complete story of TPM
o Installation of TPM
o Attention to the 6 loses
o Seven steps to autonomous maintenance
o Meeting minutes
o Measuring equipment effectiveness
o Case Study in measuring equipment effectiveness
o Exercise in choosing TPM tasks

▪ Personnel issues
o Staffing the PM Effort
o What kind of personality to look for in a PM inspector
o How to insure that PMs are done as designed

▪ Get it going right
o The big list
o Look out; problems ahead

▪ Short Repairs and high productivity
o Justifying short repairs

▪ Developing a unique action plan