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.

This course is part of the Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate. Enhance your maintenance skills while earning a recognized credential. 

Who should attend?

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

Optional Certification Exam

After taking our class, you may choose to earn your Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional credentials through the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP). It is offered the day after our class, and you MUST separately pre-register and pay for the exam online at their website.

To pay and register for the exam: CMRP Registration & Sign Up

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

Jeff Oelke
Program Director

Jeff Oelke oversees the Maintenance and Reliability Certificate offered through the University of Wisconsin–Madison Engineering Professional Development. Mr. Oelke has over 20 years of experience working with manufacturing companies. In addition to a thorough understanding of Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Quick Response Manufacturing strategies, Mr. Oelke has firsthand experience with assembly, metal forming, welding, plastics, printed circuit layout and fabrication, paint and wood products manufacturing processes. Prior to joining Engineering Professional Development, Mr. Oelke was the managing member of the Continuum Management Group, LLC, Richland Center, WI, and the division manager for supplier development at Deere and Company’s Commercial and Consumer Equipment Division. Mr. Oelke possesses MS and BS degrees with concentrations in manufacturing operations and computer hardware architecture.  He has been certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt by the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Teaching in courses starting: 09/17/2019

Ramesh Gulati
Asset Management Professional

Ramesh Gulati is an Asset Management Professional at Jacobs’ Asset Management Group, Tullahoma, TN.

He has over 50 years of diversified experience in people, product, process development and improvement as it relates to consumer goods, process/service and the heavy metal industry. Mr. Gulati has a broad background in operations analysis and process improvements, including kaizen, reengineering, performance measurement/metrics, plant reliability and maintenance process improvement tools/techniques (e.g., CMMS, CBM/PdM, TPM, RCM), implementation of ISO-certified asset management systems, energy management and people development.

Teaching in courses starting: 09/17/2019

By participating in this course you will earn:

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