M3 - Reliability Engineering & Optimising Maintenance back

This course can be customized to a 1 to 5 day to suit a company's requirements.

The course covers the basics of reliability, availability and maintainability and simulation of influencing factors such as repairs, PM and spare part logistics.

The course includes a number of case studies and practical examples to aid understanding as well as the use of two software packages provided by the ReliaSoft Co, USA. Mathematics and reliability theory will be kept to a minimum.

Typical Course Contents

  • Introduction to Reliability Engineering including definitions and symbols
  • Improving Plant Performance
  • Criticality Analysis
  • Understanding and improving Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
  • Equipment KPIs
  • Failure Coding Systems
  • Reliability Data Sources
  • Quality data collection
  • Analysing failure, repair and downtime data, fit the date to a model i.e. normal, log normal, Weibull, and exponential.
  • Systems Analysis using Reliability Block Diagrams including Availability Modeling
  • Use of Weibull++6, a tool to analyse failure, repair and downtime data
  • Use of Blocksim 6, a systems analysis & maintenance optimisation tool
  • Fault Tree analysis
  • Event Log analysis
  • Degradation analysis

What you will learn

  • How to model your plant systems at different hierarchical levels and analyse performance
  • How to focus on systems, equipment that provide greatest potential for improvement opportunities
  • How to set up failure reporting systems based on ISO14224 Collection and Reporting of Reliability Data
  • How to calculate different performance KPIs
  • How to analyse machine downtime logs better
  • Where to get benchmarking data or collect reliability data
  • How low cost commercially available software can help your reliability effort. We use the software provided by the Reliasoft Co (www.reliasoft.com)
  • How to carry out 'what if' analysis to lower operation or manufacturing costs based on PM, corrective maintenance, inspection, spares and downtime costs
  • How to optimize maintenance frequencies

Learning Tools
Course notes, exercises, case studies, powerpoint slides,

Who should attend?
Managers, Engineers, Planners, Project and Design Engineers who have an interest in reducing costs and improving performance through reliability and in the use of easy to use but powerful software.
Manufacturing professionals who wish to set up fault reporting systems and analyse data to make cost effective decisions.

 
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