The course content addresses the following topics:
- Introduction: the history of maintenance
- Reliability engineering: The foundation of modern maintenance practice
- Statistics for maintenance
- Types of maintenance: run-to-failure, planned, on-condition, and design-out
- Optimisation of the maintenance function: the two main techniques and their advantages and drawbacks - Reliable Centred Maintenance (RCM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) - the American and Japanese approaches
- Case studies in maintenance: good and bad practices to maintenance optimisation
- Wrench time: its meaning and importance
- Condition monitoring: extensive training in the big three condition monitoring
- Vibration snalysis, oil analysis, and thermography techniques
- Maintenance of specific engineering items: bearings, belting, gears, etc.
- Maintenance management: resource allocation and the yearly/weekly plan
- Shutdown maintenance
- Design for maintenance