"Just the right information I needed."
"We are going back tomorrow and changing the way we do maintenance."
Purpose of Seminar:
With ever increasing demands from top management to do more work and decrease costs,
investing in predictive maintenance and condition monitoring makes more sense today
than ever. While many organizations still rely heavily on time based maintenance,
it’s a proven fact that condition monitoring maintenance requires less personnel and
saves money and downtime.
This course provides the fundamentals of PdM and condition monitoring applicable to
plants, facilities and manufacturing lines. Predictive Maintenance & Condition
Monitoring will provide students with a framework to make the right decisions on what
equipment needs condition monitoring, what technologies to use to meet their needs
and how to measure the effectiveness of their decisions. In addition to exposing
students to the principles and options for a program, they will learn about real
world applications that have benefited other successful maintenance programs.
By the end of this seminar, students will be able to go back to their facility and
immediately apply what they learned to help make their maintenance process more
efficient and less expensive. Training like this never costs – it pays!
Who should take this course?
This seminar is a must for anyone who is involved with maintenance at industrial
plants, utilities or commercial and private building facilities. Attendees come
from a wide variety of industries, skill-levels, company sizes, and job titles,
so if you’re not sure you’ll fit in or will benefit from the class, don’t worry –
you will! People who will benefit from attending this seminar include…
Maintenance, Operations & Purchasing Managers & Personnel in:
- Manufacturing Plants
- Commercial Buildings
- Utilities
- Hospitals
- Waste Water Facilities
- Schools
- Government Buildings
- Shopping Centers
- Office & Apt Buildings
Including:
- Maintenance Personnel
- Maintenance Managers
- Purchasing Agents
- Operations Managers
- Plant Managers
- Manufacturing Managers
- Production Managers
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course students will receive a personalized Certificate of
Completion and 1.6 CEU’s (Continuing Education Units) approved by the Maintenance
Training Association of the Americas indicating that the student has learned to:
- Identify Why Time Based Maintenance Doesn’t Work
- Describe the Benefits of a PdM & Condition Monitoring Program
- Identify What Equipment to Monitor
- Understand Different PdM Technologies
- Predict What Maintenance Needs to be done and When
- How to Choose the right PdM Technologies for You
- Measure the Effectiveness of Maintenance Decisions
- Communicate the Condition Monitoring Program through the Facility
- How to Choose a PdM Service Provider
- How to Implement a PdM Program
Course Outline / Agenda
PdM or condition based maintenance attempts to evaluate the condition of equipment by performing
periodic inspections while the equipment is still in service. The ultimate goal of PdM is to
perform maintenance “just in time”, before the equipment fails in service. This two-day course
is for maintenance personnel, operators and managers who desire to understand how condition
monitoring can increase the efficiency of their maintenance program while reducing costs. This
course will teach you what equipment to monitor, what technologies to monitor it with and how to
measure your success. Students will gain an understanding of real world applications to help them
implement a PdM program at their facility.
Predictive Maintenance Program Types
- Predictive Maintenance Program Types
- Break down
- Preventive
- Predictive
Failure Rate vs. Time
- Bathtub Curve
- Definition: Weibull Distribution Curve of Failure Rate vs. Time
Sixteen PdM Program Benifits
- How to Develop a PdM Program Worksheet with Microsoft Excel
Four Foundations for Improving Reliability
- Developing and Fostering the Culture of Reliability
- Product Mission
- Reliability Specifications
- Defining Universal Failures
Comparing Maintenance Strategies based on Cost and Availability with “Large Truck Case History”
- Run to Failure
- Scheduled Repair/Replacement
- On-Condition Inspections
- Case History
Basic Concepts of FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) and FMECA (Failure Modes and Effects with Cause Analysis)
Techniques for Identifying Probability and Costs of Equipment Failure
- Recovering CMMS Data
- FMEA Data - Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- IEEE 493 Standards of Electric Motors
Using Maintenance Log Data
- Times-To-Failure
- Suspension Time
- Times-To-Repair
- MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures
Root Cause Analysis for Beginners
- What Happened? How? Why?
- How to do Cause Charting for Root Causes Possible Causes
- Recommendations
- Implementation Action Steps
Interactive Excercise - 1.5 Hours
How to Sell Root Cause Analysis to Management
- Preserving Evaluation Data
- Building the Analysis Team
- Analyzing the Data
- Communication of Findings and Recommendations
- Tracking Cost Savings
- Calculating Bottom Line Results
- Case History: How to Set Up a Seal Failure Analysis Program
- Four Step Process used by Predictive Maintenance Services Inc.
The Role of Reliability Centered Maintenance
- NASA’s Guiding Priciples of RCM
- Five RCM Strategies
- Review of FMECA
- Review of RCFA-Root Cause Failure Analysis
PdM for Manufacturing Plant Operators
The Relationship between Availability and Reliability
- Relationship Chart
- Profit benefits of Operational Availability
- How to Calculate Up-time Value in Profit Dollars
Down-Time Analysis
- F.R.E.D. Reporting - Failure Reporting, Evaluation and Display Reporting
A Review of PdM Technologies - Four Hour Presentation
- Bearing Failure Analysis with Case History
- Vibration Analysis
- Preventive
- Predictive
How PdM Technologies Integrate with RCM-Reliability Centered Maintenance
How to Write a PdM Return On Investment Report
- Interactive Exercise - 1.5 hours
On-Line Monitoring for Instant Machine Condition Diagnostics
- Monitoring Machine Conditions
- How to Make Recommendations for Repair
The Future of Predictive Maintenance
Miscellaneous: How to Use Conformance Testing for Contractor Suppliers
- Case History by Predictive Maintenance Services Inc.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
All students attending our seminars receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and .8 CEUs
(Continuing Education Units) per day of training. Over 40,000 employers and government agencies who
have sent their employees to our classes accept American Trainco CEUs for continuing education
requirements. Our administration and record keeping practices meet or exceed the standards of ACE
(American Council on Education) and we are able to provide transcripts of all classes attended and
tests taken by individual students. Please contact us if our CEUs are not yet accepted by your authority.
We will initiate an application to get the approval process started.
In House Training
You can bring this or any American Trainco seminar directly to your plant or facility. We offer
dozens of courses
covering a broad range of maintenance and maintenance management topics. Our expert instructors
are among the most experienced in the industry and can modify or customize training programs to
meet your specific needs - whether you need a short refresher course or an in depth program that
focuses on your equipment and processes. In house training reduces the training cost per employee
and limits the time required away from work. There are several other
advantages of in house training as well.
Request a quote for in-house training
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