Developing Effective Preventive Maintenance Plans - FMECA
Synopsis
Taking care of assets is about managing the risk of equipment failure and the resulting impact on business. It is normal behaviour to recognise that looking after equipment is fundamental to delivering performance as expected, yet, in some businesses, expenditure on maintenance is still considered a necessary evil.
The role of craftsmen, supervisors, engineers and managers is to predict or prevent failures occurring or show that the consequences can be managed in a manner that is satisfactory for the business. Developing the ‘right’ plans needs to follow a process that focuses maintenance attention on the most critical items yet putting in place a regime for all maintainable items.
Balancing the business risk of failure with the cost of maintenance is the difficult challenge. Having a structured risk based approach is a corner stone of best practice maintenance. Reliability is the watch word for companies delivering optimum levels of customer service
Outcome
Often, maintenance plans based on original manufactures’ instructions and only lightly modified by experience are found to be excessive. Developing risk-based plans can reduce work load by up to 30%.
Delegates will learn the value of reliability and understand the principle tools to apply to define the ‘right’ level and ‘right’ application of maintenance options.
Monitoring equipment performance before and after applying the ‘right’ plans will show the delivered benefit.
Focus Group
Users and maintainers of equipment, plus managers, leaders and coaches responsible for improving equipment performance.
Cost:
£550 + VAT per delegate
Duration:
2 days
Outlines
- Asset identification
- Plant criticality assessment
- Types of maintenance failure
- Key techniques for selecting the ‘right’ approaches to be included in an annual maintenance plan, eg. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Overhaul management
- Impact of Life Cycle Costing (LCC)