Asset Management

Defect Elimination

Francisco Amara 2 Days
In-House / On-Site
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This Petrogenium course can be tailored for intermediate staff and for experienced personnel, including technical staff, supervisors and managers.

A pre-requisite is that participants have attended the Root Cause Failure Analysis course.

Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery, plant or unit. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.

To equip participants with management and cognitive tools to promote a self-learning organization relating to defect elimination within an oil & gas context; to enable the participants to apply learnings on actual facility defects, current and future.

Day 1 – morning session

  • A review of the RCFA process
  • Top-down RCFA vs bottom-up RCFA
  • The defects elimination process
  • Nature and Sources of Defects
  • Defect elimination tools

Day 1 – afternoon session
Organizing and Managing Defect Elimination Projects

  • Technical, administrative, and logistical requirements

Case study 1

Day 2 – morning session
Creating a Culture of Improvements

  • Elements of organizational culture
  • Assessing your organizational culture
  • Discovering best and worst practices
  • Defect prevention practices
  • Continual learning about the costs of defects
  • Measuring success

Day 2 – afternoon session
Case study 2
Common pitfalls

  • Scope
  • Structure
  • Culture

Delivery Options & Upcoming Dates

In-House / On-Site Training

Tailored to Your Team

This course can be tailored and delivered at your own facility — adapted to your specific units, equipment, and team experience level. We come to you, wherever you are in the world.

All content can be customised for awareness, intermediate, or experienced staff. Post-course consultancy and help-desk support is also available.

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