Maintenance and reliability improvement - failure modes and effects and critical analysis
Venue: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Date: 27th April, 2010
Session time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Registration and Tea/Coffee at 8.30am
Fee: Engineers Ireland members €350 / Non members €450
CPD credit: 1
Delegates attending RCA and FMECA can avail of a special reduced rate of €600 for both days.
Course aim
This course equips delegates to perform robust, systematic and effective criticality analysis and FMECAs, using well proven methodologies.
Overview
The need for asset efficiency and safety are key drivers for any industry. Improving maintenance and reliability ensures the optimum performance of assets against a backdrop of ageing plant, stringent legislation and cost pressures. Maintenance needs to improve the integrity and availability of assets while minimising costs.
Criticality analysis is a key technique for understanding which items of equipment, or systems, are most important to a manufacturing operation. Knowing which items are most critical allows engineers to prioritise maintenance effort into the most beneficial and necessary areas for the business.
FMECA is a methodology for predicting potential failures and the consequences of those failures. The output of the analysis is used to direct effort appropriately into preventing failures, with the overall aim of reducing the risk of failure to an acceptable level.
When applied effectively criticality analysis and FMECA both result in optimising equipment maintenance policies that save money and increase reliability.
Learning objectives
- How to engage in critical analysis
- How to select appropriate criticality criteria
- How to use the results of a criticality analysis
- How and when to apply FMECA process
- Gain an overview of FMEA and when to apply it instead of FMECA
- Using the results to develop effective maintenance policies
Course content
- Criticality Analysis – concepts, criteria, rating systems, using the results, risk prioritisation
- FMEA / FMECA – concepts and application
- Functional analysis
- Failure modes – modes, causes, effects, criticality
- FMECA output – translation into maintenance policy
Who should attend
All engineers needing a method for prioritising maintenance work and identifying potential failure mechanisms and how to prevent them – Maintenance and engineering managers, plant engineers, reliability engineers, operations managers, maintenance technicians and supervisors.
Trainers’ profiles
Martin Brown, C Eng. MIMechE, is a principal consultant with ABB Engineering Services. He is an experienced practitioner involved in improving maintenance, reliability and integrity for a wide range of companies across the chemical, oil & gas and pharmaceutical industries. Martin worked for many years in the chemical industry in maintenance engineering, before moving into consultancy.
Laurence Plant, C Eng. MIMechE, is a principal consultant with ABB Engineering Services. He is an experienced practitioner involved in improving maintenance, reliability and integrity for a wide range of companies across the chemical, oil & gas and pharmaceutical industries. Laurence worked for many years in the pharmaceutical, chemical and brewing industries in maintenance engineering and management, before moving into consultancy.
Additional information:
The course is highly interactive using a mixture of presentations, case studies, discussions and group exercises.