PREVENTING EQUIPMENT AND MACHINE BREAKDOWNS: PRACTICAL PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE TECHNIQUES

INTRODUCTION

The workshop focuses on modern maintenance methods and techniques, with particular emphasis on selecting the right maintenance work and undertaking it at the right time, having analysed and understood actual and potential failures and how to deal with them. Experience is proving that PPM programs, when property implements, can minimise equipment and system breakdowns, resulting in a major reduction in total maintenance and operating costs.

UPON COMPLETION OF THIS WORKSHOP DELEGATES WILL:

–  Understand what is meant by “World Class Maintenance”

–  Understand Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

–  Understand how to develop effective equipment maintenance plans

–  Appreciate the importance of maintenance in ensuring safe and reliable plant
operation

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

–  Efficient maintenance – Prerequisite for ‘World Class Manufacturing

–  Life cycle cost of equipment, Bathtub curve for the machine

–  Types of Maintenance

–  Concept of ‘Critical’ machine

–  Why Preventive Maintenance?

–  Fundamentals & Pre-requisites of Preventive Maintenance

–  Predictive Maintenance (Condition Monitoring)

–  Techniques for predictive Maintenance–Vibration monitoring, Thermograph, Tribology, Process parameter monitoring

–  Benefits of Predictive Maintenance

–  How to proceed in practice

–  Experience sharing