Predictive Maintenance & Reliability Course

About This Class

This 3 day Predictive Maintenance & Reliability Course attempts to help you predict failure before it actually happens by monitoring equipment performance during normal operations. The Course covers Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance and Total Productive Maintenance in a convenient 3-day format. All aspects of PM are considered including engineering, economics, management and psychology.

This course offers a basic foundation for any organization wanting to improve or set-up a PM system.

Local Fee

R 17,999

International Fee

$ 1,300

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Some of what you will learn:

How to reduce waste in PM activity
What changes to make to improve reliability
How to gain productivity through a small change in thinking
How to plan and schedule PM
Developing task lists for different equipment

How things fail and its impact on PM
Who makes the best PM Person?
How can we adopt Planned Component Replacement?
What are the basics of predictive maintenance?
How can we use the P-F curve to chose inspection frequencies

Day 1

01 Groundwork

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

02 PPM Economics

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

03 Justifying (selling) PM and PdM expenditures

▪ Some benefits of PPM
▪ Selling PM/PdM
▪ Benefits of PM/PdM

04 Basic Understanding of Preventive Maintenance

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

05 CMMS approaches to PPM

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

06 Short repairs and high productivity

07 Reliability enhancement programs

▪ RCM
▪ PMO

Day 2

01 PM Details for effectiveness

▪ Four types of task lists
▪ PM frequency and its effect on breakdown

02 Task list development

03 Guidelines for involvement with predictive techniques

▪ Questions to ask before PdM
▪ Oil analysis
▪ Vibration analysis
▪ Temperature measurement
▪ Ultrasonic inspection
▪ Advanced visual techniques
▪ Other methods of predictive maintenance
▪ TLC-Tighten, Lubricate, clean

04 Management of PM activity

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

05 Task list analysis

▪ Complete analysis of task lists (line by line)

06 Advanced Concepts- PM at the next level

▪ P-F Curve
▪ Statistical Analysis
▪ PCR

07 Personnel issues

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

Day 3

01 TLC (Tighten, Lubricate and Clean)

02 The complete story of TPM

▪ Installation of TPM
▪ Attention to the 6 loses
▪ Seven steps to autonomous maintenance
▪ Meeting minutes
▪ Measuring equipment effectiveness
▪ Case Study in measuring equipment effectiveness
▪ Exercise in choosing TPM tasks

03 Personnel issues

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

04 Get it going right

▪ The big list
▪ Look out; problems ahead

05 Short Repairs and high productivity

▪ Justifying short repairs

06 Developing a unique action plan

Who should attend

This 3-day training course is specifically designed for:

Maintenance Managers
Maintenance Supervisors
Electricians
Maintenance Planners
Maintenance Engineers
Maintenance Schedulers
Plant Engineers

Asset & Plant Managers
Mechanical Engineers
Engineering Managers
Facilities Engineers
Production Engineers
Technicians
Anyone who is responsible for maintenance

His career includes 25 years of experience in the asset management, reliability and maintenance field including process control design, source equipment inspection, electrical expertise, field service technician, maritime operations and property management.

Training more than 15,000 asset managers and reliability leaders in over 3,000 organizations across the globe, Levitt is recognized as an expert in competency based learning. His most recent assignment was Director for International Projects with LCE, a global leader in asset management, reliability and maintenance services and training.

As an industry thought leader, he has authored numerous best-selling books on reliability topics and is a frequent keynote speaker at leading conferences and educational events around the world. Levitt earned a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from Temple University. Note: Joel Levitt’s full professional Biography is available on request.