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Optimizing Equipment and Facilities Maintenance Programs

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Mar 19 - 20, 2024 /
Course Code: 14-0311-ONL24

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  • Overview
  • Syllabus
  • Instructor

Overview

Please note, This instructor-led course has specific dates and times:
This course is held online over 2 days on the following schedule (All times in Eastern Time Zone):

10 am to 6 pm Eastern (Will include the usual breaks)

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

  • familiarize yourself with good maintenance practices
  • consider elements required to improve reliability in a cost-effective manner
  • appreciate how existing maintenance can be planned and managed
  • understand the techniques for good and efficient maintenance planning
  • recognize the need for various maintenance methodologies
  • become skilled with methods for maintenance budgeting
  • implement effective maintenance reporting and record keeping

Description
Maintenance programs and activities often lead to loss of production and increased costs due to decreased equipment reliability. An effective maintenance program has to be followed by adequate organization, management and budget plans. Ideally, the program should provide the required reliability at a minimum cost. The validity of the selected program should be continuously monitored and improved.

This course will present the main points of an effective, cost-efficient maintenance program together with all aspects of necessary improvement. It will be demonstrated how to efficiently organize and manage manpower, equipment, tools and spare parts. The course will include several workshops with interactive exercises to illustrate the topics presented.

Course Outline:

  • Maintenance strategies and practices: Corrective, Preventive and Predictive
  • Maintenance staffing: manpower selection and training
  • The efficiency of Reliability Centered Maintenance: RCM
  • Maintenance planning and scheduling
  • Gathering maintenance information: CMMS
  • Monitoring and reporting maintenance activities
  • Organization and management of maintenance work

Who Should Attend

Technical personnel involved in the maintenance of equipment and facilities • Maintenance engineers and planners • Technicians and operators responsible for equipment and facilities • Consulting engineers • Design engineers • Industrial production engineers

More Information

Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Eastern Time


Please note: You can check other time zones here.

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

Instructor

Mike Ivanovic, Ph.D.

Dr. Mike Ivanovic is President of UBAMIP Consulting, and also former Adjunct Associate Professor with over 30 years of experience in the field of thermal engineering. After working in the consulting group of ANSYS Canada Ltd., he now runs the private consulting company UBAMIP Consulting, dealing with analysis and problem solving in operation of vital stationary and rotating equipment in the process and petrochemical industry. Mike has also been active in providing training technical courses of various levels of complexity for professionals in industry in Canada, USA and overseas.

His area of expertize among others, includes design, operation and maintenance of various types of storage tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems, including pumps and compressors. The focus in the consulting projects has been on the risk assessment during operation and maintenance activities, as well as equipment failure analysis and accident prevention technologies based on the results of inspection and fitness for service studies.




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Fee & Credits

$1295 + taxes

  • 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
  • 14 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
  • ECAA Annual Professional Development Points
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