Objectives

The course aims to familiarize the reader with the main terms of maintenance auditing and benchmarking and help understand how an audit and benchmarking activity can help to map compare and improve existing maintenance management systems of industrial maintenance departments.

Learning Outcome

After successfully completing this course, the trainee will:

• Recognise the main steps of an audit process.
• Appreciate the concept of benchmarking in a maintenance context.
• Map and describe the existing maintenance management processes in order to ensure their efficient and effective operation.
• Describe the auditing procedure from specification to report writing.
• Describe benchmarking and how auditing can facilitate it.

Prerequisites / Related Topics:

Pre-requisites: 1.4. Goals, strategies, results, 2.4.Measurements
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Objectives

In a modern organisation or enterprise, engineering assets condition needs to be assessed throughout their life cycle, in order to meet quality, health & safety and performance targets and constraints. Condition monitoring systems offer the key to the implementation of a condition-based maintenance strategy, wherein maintenance decisions are taken and scheduled on the basis of the real condition of engineering assets. The objective of this module is to provide and outline of cover basic condition monitoring concepts techniques, while offering also practical implementation guidelines.

Learning Outcome

After successfully completing this module you will be able to:

• Understand the principles of condition monitoring systems.
• Appreciate the need for implementing condition monitoring.
• Have a basic understanding of the available condition monitoring techniques.
• Make an initial selection of condition monitoring techniques for different engineering assets.

Prerequisites or Related Modules

Define which other modules need to be completed before taking this module or define which other modules are related to this.

• 1.2. Preventive and inspection activities (related)
• 1.3. Repair techniques and methods (related)
• 1.4. Goals, strategies, results (related)
• 2.2. Remote Control (SCADA Systems) (related)

Objectives

Measurement and analysis of maintenance performance help management to identify the current performance status with respect to target values and set new realistic goals. At the same time performance measures are a very powerful tool in motivating and driving actions for further improvement. When maintenance measures are properly analyzed they provide valuable information concerning maintenance performance which can be used as a feedback for improvement actions. This way, the effectiveness of maintenance procedures can be further increased and the overall system performance can be remarkably improved.

Learning Outcome

Upon completion of this chapter the trainee will be able to:

• Understand the most important maintenance performance measures
• Draw valuable information from these measures
• Apply certain analysis techniques to assess the performance of maintenance department
  

Prerequisites / Related Topics:

Pre-requisites: Analysis of the technical performance of the assets, Maintenance concepts
Related Topics: Maintenance involvement in design, procurement and operation of assets, Repair techniques and methods.

Objectives

The course aims to familiarize the reader with the main terms of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and help him understand how an Information System can be established in order to serve the Maintenance Department operation and simultaneously improve its effectiveness.

Learning Outcome

After successfully completing this course, the trainee will:

• Recognise the main modules of a CMMS
• Know how a CMMS is structured
• Be aware of the most important factors of successful implementation of a CMMS
• Have some ideas of how one can run a CMMS in a company
  

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