Master Class in Maintenance Management Course

Cost-effective Maintenance has to be Planned – it doesn’t happen by chance and this requires a strategy which is constantly kept up to date

This is the 6th year that ESS Ltd. has run our highly popular Master Class in Maintenance Management and each year it has been updated to keep the course current. For the 2009 – 2010 course, we have added 6 new recession-beating practices into Module 1 to give you a flying start with improvements.

The course itself is an in-depth treatment of the major factors that have to be considered in order to produce a tailored maintenance strategy and the pitfalls to be avoided. It deals with the choices and issues that are involved in achieving this right from project inception through to commissioning and operation of plant and equipment. A well-proven template for developing a maintenance strategy is introduced. Case study examples are then presented showing how this template has been applied successfully across a variety of different industrial organisations.

Module 1 (13th – 15th Oct 09): Stabilising Day to Day Activities
Module 2 (1st - 3rd Dec 09): Maintenance Strategy
Module 3 (16th - 18th Feb 10): Moving to Lean Maintenance with Continuous Improvement

Course Objectives

• Apply basic analytical techniques which have proved valuable in solving practical maintenance problems (focus on critical equipment, analysing failure data, system availability assessment, etc.)
• Understand Basic Management Principles & Techniques (object setting, organisational modelling, work measurement, etc)
• Discriminate between modern Condition Monitoring techniques
• Develop a logical approach to the formulation of a Maintenance Strategy

Course Content

Module 1: Stabilising Day to Day Activities

• Financial Impact of Maintenance on an Industrial Organisation
• Function of the Maintenance Organisation
• Budgeting and Cost Control
• Equipment Criticality
• Types of Maintenance
• Maintenance Resource Structure
• Administrative Structure
• Safety Health & Environmental Management
• Managing Workload
• Managing Inventory
• Stabilising Day to Day Activities Exam

Module 2: Maintenance Strategy

• Business Focused Approach to Maintenance
• Maintenance Objectives
• Structure of Industrial Plant & Breaking Down Objectives
• Principles of Preventive Maintenance
• Probability of Failure & Failure Patterns
  
• Combining Top Down & Bottom Up Approaches
• Introduction to the Principles of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
• Discussion of Delegates Strategies
• Maintenance Strategy Exam

Module 3: Moving to Lean Maintenance with Continuous Improvement

• Controlling Plant Reliability & Four Reasons for Failure, Key Performance Indicators & Benchmarking and Analysing maintenance data
• Maintenance Management & the need for different Systems
• Maintainability & Reliability
• Plant Acquisition Policy and its affect on Maintenance
• Lean & Six Sigma
• Knowledge Management
• Task Leadership & Leadership Styles
• Learning Styles, Team Working & Empowerment
• Performance Management & Appraisal Systems
• Total Productive Maintenance
• How to successfully project manage the installation of a maintenance management system
• Managing Condition Monitoring Programmes
• Use of Contractors in Maintenance
• Contract Details
• Data Analysis Case Study
• Continuous Improvement Exam

Participant Profile

The target audience is for Maintenance Managers, Engineers, Supervisors, Production Managers, Superintendents, & Design Engineers, who either would like to develop a new maintenance strategy or review an existing one.

Trainer Profile

Paul Wheelhouse BSc (Hons) C.Eng. MIET worked for ICI in a variety of senior maintenance and production roles for 20 years. A large part of this time was devoted to enhancing the performance of plant, work processes and the functioning of groups. His last post was European Operations Manager for its Specialty Chemicals Business where he was responsible for both in-house manufacturing and contract manufacturing across the European Union.

For the past 15 years Paul has been engaged in Maintenance and Asset Management consulting. This has involved identifying solutions for clients to enhance their return on assets through improved equipment reliability, reduced working capital and effective use of resources. His assignments have been across a multitude of industries located around the world. He regularly makes contributions to maintenance conferences and maintenance-related publications.

Paul is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology, a Council member of the Institute of Asset Management and an associate member of the Institute of Management. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Manchester in the UK where he lectures on maintenance for MSc and MBA programmes.