An Introduction to Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management

Day One: 1 May 2012
Today focuses on: Developing a Strategy and ensuring effectiveness

Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am Course Registration and coffee, is followed by an introduction to the course by the Course Leader, Dr J Sinha.
Morning session: The course gets underway with the first speaker, Paul Wheelhouse who will cover, the financial impact of maintenance and how it can provide a competitive advantage. After coffee we look at, the Strategy Review Process - taking account of business needs, legislation, current performance and best practice.

Lunch

Afternoon session: Continuing from the morning session, Paul Wheelhouse leads the afternoon session and will cover, Maintenance Organisation - structuring resources to ensure cost effective maintenance. After break Paul will cover Auditing maintenance as part of the continuous improvement process.

Day Two: 2 May 2012
Today focuses on: Maintenance Systems

Morning session: The opening session is led by Tom Lenahan and begins with an Introduction to Maintenance Systems. Following the break Tom covers the subject of Turnaround Management.

Lunch

Afternoon session: After lunch Professor Ashraf Labib, covers learning from failures. case Studies are discussed of famous disasters to illustrate reliability modelling and the process of feedback from maintenance to design in an attempt to learn from failures. After break Professor Labib looks at Information systems and design related policies in maintenance. Exploring the different aspects of maintenance policies and how to select an appropriate policy, including design out, based on the relative performance of assets.

Day Three: 3 May 2012

Today Focuses on: Reliability Engineering in a Maintenance Context

Morning session: The first session is led by John Harris who begins by setting the scene in defining reliability, using simple statistics of item failure, data needs and the implications for maintenance policy. After the morning break John looks at analysing the reliability of plant items using a video - Weibull analysis with simple illustrative case studies. Assessing the reliability of basic systems, series and parallel configuration, outlining failure modes and effects analysis and fault tree analysis. Each delegate will receive a DVD containing a video of the methods covered.

Lunch

Afternoon session:

After lunch the course continues with Dr Jyoti Sinha who will cover Vibration based condition monitoring. We look at the basic priciples of vibration, amplitude of vibration, basic instrumentations and data acquisition, the concept of spectrum and FRF analysis. After break the course concludes with a look at the development of a condition monitoring system for a rotating machine. We cover the selection of transducers, measurement location, ISO codes, frequency range of measurement and features for fault detection through case studies.

Finally the course comes to an end with a feedback and plenary session and will end at 17.30 on Thursday.