Effective Preventive Maintenance

A Preventive Maintenance program (PM program) is a series of routines, procedures and steps taken (including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement) to identify and resolve potential equipment problems before they happen. The purpose is to ensure that machines last longer, that production quality is maintained and that delivery schedules are met. A preventive maintenance program requires systematic replacement of aged parts, plus the inspection, detection, and correction of embryonic failures either before they occur or before they develop into major problems.
 
You need to ensure your preventive maintenance strategy is focused on discovering and using the right principles and the appropriate practices for successful PM program development by:

• Considering the total true cost impact of equipment failures.
• Reviewing basic equipment design to discover what is necessary for its proper operation.
• Looking at equipment in a production environment to understand the operating impact.
• Investigating expectations for the performance of plant and equipment.
• Determining maintenance requirements and the operating environment.
• Establishing frequencies and a program for PM.
• Identify processes, information, physical resources and job skills required for PM.
• Recognising other business processes and information which link to PM.
• Tracking and trending PM performance, outcomes and savings.
• Identifying necessary documentation, its content and its arrangement for PM.
• Initiating the continuous improvement of PM systems and processes.
• Imbedding good practice PM into your organisation.

This course shows and explains how to select and use preventive maintenance strategy and methods that means your operation can have:

• zero breakdowns,
• steady production at maximum sustainable capacity,
• production equipment that makes first-pass quality product,
• excellent plant availability
• high equipment reliability,
• maximum energy efficiency from operating equipment,
• ever falling maintenance costs
• condition driven continual improvement.

Delegates should represent a wide range of personnel in the organisation who are involved in, or dependent on, effective maintenance asset management. These should include:

• Maintenance Artisans: Ready for promotion
• Maintenance Supervisors: Realize their critical role at implementation level and cooperation with others
• Maintenance Managers: Interfacing with all other departments for scarce resources. Support from a team point of view in production; logistics and plant facilities
• Logistics Supervisors & Mangers: In order to recognize the importance of critical spares; tools and equipment and agree on a level of safety stock and critical spares
• Plant Managers: They are frustrated with machine downtime and poor motivation; maintenance – the solution
• Plant Engineers: They are in the position to design out repetitive errors by innovation and creativity.
• Maintenance Planners: They need to realize the importance of effective communication and be aware of who; what; when; how; why regarding shut downs and preventative Maintenance. The author developed 12 maintenance types.
• Management Information staff: Understand the role of CMMS in maintenance; difficult to balance
• Project managers: Modern maintenance is done as projects
• Risk Management Professionals: The importance of care of physical assets and incident and accident preventions by evaluating equipment unsafe acts and unsafe conditions
• Financial Managers: They must plan the future budgets and strategies going forward and need to know what we have and what not. Is the MRP system accurate? Why not?

Benefits of attending this course:

When done well your preventive maintenance strategies deliver the six purposes of maintenance – equipment reliability, failure avoidance, defect elimination, least operating costs, risk reduction and maximum production. Fail to achieve one of them and your maintenance efforts will not get the big pay-offs that they should. Maintenance that does not make you more production and profit is a poor sort of maintenance. Modern maintenance focuses on maximising operating profit by driving reliability growth at every stage of the business life-cycle.

Learn the modern understandings and methods you need to know and use to get World-Class Preventive Maintenance results. Discover the current leading-edge and the best classic strategies that make equipment run stoppage-free for longer; produce at maximum sustainable capacity with first-pass quality throughput, and make industrial operations highly profitable.

You learn to focus your preventive maintenance methods and practices on defect removal and failure elimination in every phase of the life-cycle. Understanding how to intentionally make your business processes and production equipment more and more reliable turns average organisations into world-class organisations. This course is packed with new insights and techniques that you can use every day in your operation to make it better, faster, leaner, safer, waste-free and less costly.

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