Optimizing Equipment and Facilities Maintenance Programs
14 Professional Development Hours
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Familiarize yourself with good maintenance practices and understand the techniques for efficient maintenance planning.
- Consider elements required to improve reliability in a cost-effective manner and appreciate how existing maintenance can be planned and managed.
- Recognize the need for various maintenance methodologies.
- Become skilled with methods for maintenance budgeting.
- Implement effective maintenance reporting and record-keeping.
Description
Maintenance programs can lead to production loss and increased costs due to decreased equipment reliability. To address these issues, an effective maintenance program must include proper organization, management, and budgeting. This course will teach you how to create a cost-efficient maintenance program that provides the required reliability at minimal cost while continuously improving its effectiveness.
You will learn to plan and manage maintenance activities to optimize efficiency, create robust maintenance plans to prevent breakdowns and explore various maintenance methodologies, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance. Additionally, you will develop skills in maintenance budgeting and understand the importance of detailed records and reporting for continuous improvement.
This course includes practical workshops with interactive exercises to provide hands-on experience. These sessions will show you how to efficiently organize and manage manpower, equipment, tools, and spare parts. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to develop and implement a maintenance program that enhances equipment reliability and reduces costs.
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for a diverse range of professionals involved in the maintenance and management of equipment and facilities. Whether you are a maintenance engineer, planner, technician, or operator responsible for ensuring the reliability of your organization's assets, this program will enhance your skills.
Consulting engineers, design engineers, and industrial production engineers will also find valuable insights to optimize maintenance practices and improve operational efficiency.
Join us to advance your expertise and make a significant impact on your maintenance strategies.
Course Syllabus
DAY-1:
- Role of maintenance in plant operation
- Standards and codes related to the quality of maintenance
- Maintenance strategies and practices
- Maintenance methods: Corrective, Preventive & Predictive maintenance
- Maintenance personnel: selection and training
- Roles and responsibilities: RACI matrix
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Workshop: Problems and solutions
DAY-2
- Maintenance planning & scheduling: use of GANTT chart
- Preparation for maintenance and inspection: lockout and tagout (LOTO)
- Repair technologies for pressure vessels and piping systems
- Condition monitoring of rotating equipment: vibration and lube control
- Decision: repair or replace failed element: Fitness for service (FFS) analysis
- Spare parts management program: Management of change (MOC)
- Computational maintenance management system (CMMS)
- Monitoring & reporting maintenance activities: backlog
- Effectively managing maintenance work
- Summary and conclusions
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COURSE CREDIT
Almost all of EPIC's courses offer :
- 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and
- 14 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
These course credits will help attendees earn training requirements for their associations or provincial governing bodies.







