•Leadership, control, continuous improvement, quantum leaps
•Maintenance strategy, managing change, maintenance tactics, MRO materials management, and performance measures
•An approach to prioritizing opportunities for improvement
•Six key steps to planning and scheduling resources effectively
•Planning exercise
•Asset–centric continuous improvement and risk reduction
•How to successfully implement an RCM program
•What does this mean in maintenance?
•What can we realistically achieve?
•How do we get a committed focus on Maintenance and Asset Management?
•Exercise - Case study – on an actual company looking to improve its business
•The impact of Change Management on Asset Management Transformation
•Why is Change Management important in Asset Mng. agreement effectiveness?
•How have successful programs embraced Change effectively?
•What key steps contribute to successful change?
•Optimizing life cycle decisions Technology Trends and Asset Management
•More than just Maintenance management systems
•Getting the technology, process, and people mix right
•Analysis of Component Failure Data
•Probability Density Function
•Reliability Function
•Hazard Function
•Weibull Density
•Infant Mortality
•Bath-Tub Curve
•Upper-End Censoring
•Multiply Censored Group Data
•Estimating the Location Parameter, the Weibull Distribution
•Checking the Goodness-of-Fit of the Distribution
•Block Replacement Policies
•Age-Based Replacement Policy
•Setting Policies based on Safety Constraints, Cost Minimization, and Availability-Maximization
•Repairable systems
•Estimating the Weibull Parameters
•The role of the OREST Software Package
•Fast-moving spares
•Emergency (insurance) spares
•Reliability Improvement Through Inspection
•Inspection Frequency and Depth for equipment in continuous operation
•Inspection Intervals to Maximize Profit Maximizing Equipment Availability
•Inspection intervals for equipment used in emergencies (e.G. Protective devices)
•Case studies including transportation fleets (for inspection frequency) and oil and gas field equipment such as pressure safety valves (for protective devices)
•Proportional Hazards Modeling
Spectroscopic Oil Analysis Programs
•Optimization of Condition-Based Maintenance Procedures
•Role of EXAKT software for CBM optimization
•Case studies include the food procession industry (vibration monitoring), mining and shipping equipment such as diesel engines (oil analysis), transportation equipment such as traction motor bearings (visual inspection)
•Definition of life cycle and its implications
•Life cycle costs categories
•Solving inter-departmental conflicts in asset replacement/ acquisition decisions
•The size of the prize
•Concept of the time value of money
•Defining cash flow diagram Calculating Net
•Present Value of a decision
•Estimating the time value of money in practice
•The trade-off between O & M costs and capital expenditures
•Establishing the economic life of fixed equipment such as an internal combustion engine.
•South American case study
•Establishing the economic life of mobile equipment including fleet vehicles and forklift trucks
•North American manufacturing case study
•Establishing the economic life of the equipment that is highly utilized when new, and as it ages it is used for peak demands
•North American transportation case studies
•How to calculate the best time to replace the current asset with a more technologically improved asset – •Turbo expander case study
•Loader repair/replace case study-South America
•Underground pipe case study-repair a leak or replace the pipe section-North American case study•Predicting future life cycle costs of a fleet
•Case example: Based on a fleet of transformers of a major electricity distribution company in North America Carrying out LCC analysis when there are few (or no) data available
•Establishing the economic life of linear assets such as steel mains of a major gas distribution company in North America
•Estimating distribution of end of life of transformers based on experts’ opinions - from a limited data North American case study
•AGE/CON for the optimization of the economic life of mobile equipment
•PERDEC for the optimization of the economic life of plant equipment
•Combustion engines, fleet vehicles, forklift trucks, a turbo expander, a loader repair/replace decision and a fleet of transformers. They represent real-world examples where companies saved hundreds of millions of dollars by applying LCC management principles.