1. The Purpose of Maintenance
   

2. What constitutes a failure?
   

3. Maintenance strategies
   

   1. Run to failure

   2. Time / usage based

   3. Condition based

   4. Failure finding

   5. Design-out

1. Prerequisites for Condition-Based Maintenance
   

2. The P-F interval concept and its relationship with criticality
   

3. Trendability
   

4. Condition Monitoring vs Condition Inspection.
   

1. Availability, Reliability, Mean Time to Failure
   

2. Burn-in, random and wear out failure distributions. Weibull Analysis
   

3. Physical Failure Mechanisms
   

4. The relationship between installation quality, loading roughness, physical failure mechanisms and the P-F Interval

5. Continuous Improvement
   

1. Criticality Analysis & prioritisation
   

2. Technical analysis, FMESA
   

3. Set-up
   

4. Routine Monitoring – Data collection
   

5. Routine Monitoring – Screening, Diagnosis, Prognosis
   

6. Feedback loops, long term and short term
   

7. Review
   

1. A look at the hype and reality of claimed cost savings
   

2. A robust process to calculate cost savings
   

3. Practices that secure a sound return on investment
   

4. Making the case for investment in Condition Based Maintenance
   

1. The benefits of Planned Maintenance
   

2. The relationship between P-F intervals and Planning horizons
   

1. What is Competence?
   

2. Inhouse Monitoring
   

3. Outsourced Monitoring
   

4. Mixed Approach
   

5. Online Monitoring
   

6. The use and current status of AI in screening and analysis
   

Using CM technologies for:     

1. 1. Early Life Management     

   2. Mid-Life Management     

   3. Obsolescence / End of Life Management
      

1. Different approaches to RCFA
   

2. Cause and Effect
   

3. Necessary and Sufficient Causes
   

4. Using Condition Monitoring information in RCFA
   

5. Change / Difference Analysis
   

6. Convergent vs Divergent thinking and the need for both
   

7. When to stop
   

8. Devising and implementing solutions
   

How to structure information in the workplace so inspections are easily carried out and the results of inspections are actionable.

1. What is vibration?
   

2. How is it quantified?
   

3. Vibration analysers and measurement equipment
   

4. How do vibration sensors work?
   

5. The influence of sensor mounting on measurement accuracy
   

6. Vibration signal processing
   

7. Vibration data plots
   

8. The relationship between machinery faults and vibration signatures
   

9. Where to measure vibration?
   

10. Vibration standards and setting limits
    

11. Case histories
    

1. Oil viscosity and its measurement
   

2. The make-up of lubricating and hydraulic oils
   

3. Elemental spectral analysis of oil
   

4. Oil oxidation and test to detect and quantify oxidation
   

5. The role of bases in engine oils
   

6. The effect of water and particulate contamination on the life of lubricated components
   

7. Tests to detect water and particulates
   

8.  The relationship between metallic wear and particle concentrations
   

9. Tests to detect ferrous wear
   

10. Oil sampling – how to get a representative sample safely, without introducing contamination
    

11. Sampling frequencies
    

12. Visual inspection whilst sampling
    

13. Interpreting lab reports
    

14. Contamination control in lubrication
    

1. What is Infra-Red radiation? (IR)
   

2. IR cameras vs IR thermometers
   

3. How IR cameras Work
   

4. Camera palettes and image presentation features
   

5. Selecting the camera range
   

6. The importance of focussing on measurement accuracy
   

7. Distance, image resolution and temperature accuracy
   

8. Emissivity and reflectivity in theory and practice
   

9. Reflected Ambient Temperature
   

10. Applications – Mechanical, Building, Process, Electrical
    

11. Safety considerations
    

12. Qualitative vs Quantitative thermography
    

13. Limits and standards for electrical IR
    

1. Introduction
   

2. AC motor construction
   

3. Making motor signature measurements
   

4. Rotor bar fault detection
   

5. Eccentricity detection
   

6. Mechanical fault detection
   

1. What are acoustic emission (AE) and ultrasound (Us)?
   

2. Processes that generate AE and Us
   

3. Features of AE and Us instrumentation
   

4. Applications with case histories:
   

   1. Compressed Air Leak detection
      

   2. Steam Trap monitoring
      

   3. Bearing monitoring
      

   4. Slow-speed machinery

   5. Electrical discharges
      

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Live sessions

This course consists of instructor-led group sessions, these group sessions can be either virtual or on-site. During these sessions participants can ask questions to the instructor which are discussed, as well as questions submitted beforehand in the learning portal.

After each live session used slides and exercise documents are made available to participants on the learning portal. You receive 1-year unlimited access to this material in the learning portal.

Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.

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