Modern Maintenance Technologies
Challenging Traditional Approaches in Maintenance

Why Choose this Training Course?

Modern Maintenance Technologies provides great opportunities to optimize the performance of your systems and equipment to achieve maximum return on investment (ROI). By reducing costs and downtime, while achieving high levels of safety and quality you will be able to get the best out of your assets.

This PetroKnowledge training course introduces participants to the skills and knowledge areas of essential maintenance technologies and methodologies of today, associated with equipment, systems, people and management. It demonstrates both the background to each technology, and its practical application to achieve the best bottom-line results.

This training course will highlight:

• Asset Management : a business-like approach of maintenance
• International standards on Asset Management (PAS 55 & ISO 55000)
• Cost/benefit thinking
• Understanding risk and an introduction to a Risk Based Maintenance approach
• Decision support tools to make maintenance more effective
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Understanding audits, maintenance assessments and benchmarking as a means to improve your asset & maintenance management process

Training Objectives

What are the Goals?

At the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

• Apply modern maintenance technologies & methodologies in the appropriate way
• Understand how each of these technologies contribute to maintenance efficiency
• Explain how these technologies interact with and support each other
• Achieve the best results in practicing these technologies
• Develop an action plan to utilize these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy and to measure the benefits

Target Audience

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals involved in the area of maintenance contracts, but will greatly benefit:

• All professionals involved in Maintenance, Engineering and Production
• Anyone who wishes to update themselves on Modern Maintenance Technologies, judge the suitability of these technologies for their needs, and learn how to implement them for the benefit of their organizations

Training Methods

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This PetroKnowledge training course will be conducted along interactive workshop principles. There will be a variance of lectures and practical exercises. Experiences from different areas will be discussed and there will be many opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences.

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction & Overview – Challenging the Traditional Approaches to Maintenance

Competency Description: The objective is to establish a strong understanding of modern maintenance technologies and how they contribute to a higher maintenance efficiency.

Key behaviours

• Understand asset management principles
• Understand cost/benefit thinking in maintenance
• Identify possibilities to apply cost/benefit calculation in a practical way
• Understand basic principles of risk
• Identifying and learning from best practice

Topics to be covered

• Asset Management: a business-like approach of maintenance
• Cost/benefit thinking: spending the right amount of maintenance
• Applying basic optimization tools to support cost/benefit decisions
• Introduction to risk
• Risk in maintenance & operations

Day Two: Risk Based Maintenance (RBM) 

Competency Description: The objective is to understand the different types of failure behaviour and how to select the appropriate maintenance task to control the related risk.

Key behaviours

• Identify failure behaviour of assets
• Understand the principles of risk in maintenance
• Identify failure causes, likelihood and severity of failure
• Understand the concept of Risk Based Maintenance
• Identifying and learning from best practice

Topics to be covered

• Deterioration: the way assets could fail
• Representation of risk
• The seven steps of Risk Based Maintenance (RBM) – The Methodology
• Failure behaviour
• Choosing the right maintenance task

Day Three: Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Competency Description: The objective is to understand how to learn from failures and incidents by identifying the root causes and take preventive measures.

Key behaviours

• Understand that multiple realities and subjective views hinder finding the real causes of failure
• Understand the principle of preventive and corrective actions
• Identify different methodologies to find root causes and understand the principles
• Apply them in your own organisation
• Identifying and learning from best practice

Topics to be covered

• Multiple realities
• Subjective views
• Effective problem solving
• Cause and effect relations
• RCA methodologies – Examples and Application

Day Four: Process Audits, Maintenance Assessments & Benchmarking 

Competency Description: The objective is to understand that process audits, maintenance assessments and performing benchmarking studies are proper means to identify and implement process improvements in maintenance.

Key behaviours

• Understand the improvement framework
• Understand and apply the basics of process audits
• Understand and apply he basic elements of maintenance assessments
• Understand benchmarking principles
• Identifying and learning from best practice

Topics to be covered

• Where are we now – introduction to process audits, benchmarking & assessments
• Process audit – basic theory
• Auditing in practice
• Maintenance assessment – basic theory
• Execution of a maintenance assessment of the work planning & control process
• Benchmarking – basic theory
• Benchmark studies
• How to interpret benchmark results

Day Five: Performance Management & Decision Support Tools 

Competency Description: The objective is to understand how to improve maintenance performance and implement continuous improvement.

Key behaviours

• Understanding continuous improvement
• Understand how you could optimize your maintenance performance with decision support tools
• Using performance indicators in a practical way
• Understand how to realize better performance by influencing the behaviour of people
• Identifying and learning from best practice

Topics to be covered

• Defining performance
• Applying specific performance indicators and process parameters to measure the performance of assets, activities and processes
• Performance management: influencing the behaviour of people to gain better results
• Applying sophisticated decision support tools to optimize maintenance performance

Accreditation

PetroKnowledge is recognized by the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) as an Approved Provider. The SMRP Approved Provider status allows PetroKnowledge to host a number of Maintenance & Reliability related continuing education trainings.

This training course is approved by SMRP to issue 25 Continuing Education Course Hours (CECHs) towards recertification of CMRP, CMRT or CAMA credentials.