Implementing A Reliability-Centered Maintenance Program

Exploring the four principles of RCM – preserve function, identify failure modes that can defeat functions, prioritize function needs, select applicable and effective tasks – this course will teach you the basics and provide a full nine-step process for RCM. You will also learn how to implement other techniques to improve the effectiveness of your overall maintenance plan, saving your organization time and money.

Who should attend?

• Maintenance managers and supervisors
• Plant engineers
• Facilities engineers
• Operations directors
• Maintenance engineers
• Capital project managers
• Asset/equipment owners

Introduction: Setting the Stage

• Why do we do maintenance?
• Myths about maintenance
• Does maintenance add to the bottom line?

Defining Best Practices, Excellence, and Culture

• Defining terms related to MRO (maintenance, reliability, and operations)
• Elements of asset (equipment) performance
• Identifying stakeholders to journey to excellence

Maintenance Strategies and Practices: PM, PdM/CBM, P&S, etc.

• Preventive maintenance (PM)
• Predictive/condition based maintenance (PdM/CBM)
• Run-to-failure (RTF)
• Planning and scheduling
• Material stores management

Optimizing Maintenance: RCM

• History and benefits
• RCM process with some examples

Operations Role

Building/Designing for Reliability: Sustainability

Analysis Tools and Performance Measures

What/When to Use?

• Pareto, fishbone, 5 whys, etc.
• FMEA, primary tool for RCM analysis with example/exercise
• Metrics

Standards Impacting Maintenance and Equipment Care

• Standards and standardization
• Energy, environment, risk, asset, etc.

Leadership and Change Management

• Role of guru, manager, leader, and change agent
• Why change is important
• Challenges in implementing best practices

Course Review and Wrap-up

Frank Rath
Program Director

Frank Rath, MSIE, is the Director of the Maintenance Management Certificate program at UW–Madison and a program director in the department of Engineering Professional Development in the College of Engineering. He has developed and taught seminars in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, industrial engineering tools, product development and design, ergonomics, Build-To-Demand, supply chain engineering, quality management in radiation therapy, and Quick Response Manufacturing. He has consulted with and led projects at several companies over the past 25 years including John Deere, Harley Davidson Motor Company, National Oil Well Varco, Kimberly Clark, and many others.

Teaching in courses starting: 05/08/2018

Ramesh Gulati
Reliability Planning Manager

Ramesh Gulati is the Asset Management and Reliability Planning Manager with Aerospace Testing Alliance at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), Arnold AFB, Tennessee. In this position, he provides cost effective maintenance/reliability strategies and supports implementation of long-term reliability improvement initiatives for the Department of Defense’s Aerospace Test Facility. Previously, Gulati held various maintenance, engineering, and other management positions at AEDC, Carrier Air Conditioning Corporation, True Temper Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, and Heavy Engineering Corp.’s Foundry Forge plant. Gulati is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE). He holds BSME, MSIE, and an MBA from Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Teaching in courses starting: 05/08/2018

By participating in this course you will earn:

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