Reliability for Managers Training Course
Consultant/Trainer: Francisco Amarra
This is a focused one-day (6–8 hr) training designed for managers and executives across maintenance, operations, engineering, and support functions. It provides a clear overview of reliability principles, failure patterns, maintenance policies, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), using real-world case studies to demonstrate practical application. Tailored to different experience levels and client sites, the course empowers decision-makers to adopt proactive strategies, optimize asset uptime, and ultimately enhance organizational performance.
Participants
This Petrogenium course can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel. 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.
Participants may include: managers from: Maintenance, Operations, Process Engineering, Contracts/Procurement, Warehousing, Safety, Human Resources, Environment and Health, Finance, Economics and Scheduling, Turnaround, etc.
Participants may include: managers from: Maintenance, Operations, Process Engineering, Contracts/Procurement, Warehousing, Safety, Human Resources, Environment and Health, Finance, Economics and Scheduling, Turnaround, etc.
Learning Objectives
This course provides a brief overview of reliability and how it impacts the way assets in the facilities could be effectively managed. It offers an insight in basic reliability concepts and how it is applied in the real world. Case studies and practical exercises will demonstrate how it changes the paradigm beliefs of the participants of this course.
- Objectives & Premises
- Building the Case for PM Tasks
- Stages to Maintenance Excellence
- Maintenance in the overall business process
- Maintenance & Reliability Principles
- Meaning of “Maintenance”; Need for Maintenance; Evolution of Maintenance
- Equipment Life & Failure Patterns
- Failure Pattern F: Infant Mortality
- Features of Poor Maintenance
- Modern Reliability Views
- Maintenance Options
- Maintenance Policies
- Stand-alone
- Dedicated duty
- Dedicated standby
- Run-to-Failure
- Hidden Failure
- RCM Application
- Benefits
- IPF, RBI and RCM Development
Programme
- Objectives & Premises
- Building the Case for PM Tasks
- Stages to Maintenance Excellence
- Maintenance in the overall business process
- Maintenance & Reliability Principles
- Meaning of “Maintenance”; Need for Maintenance; Evolution of Maintenance
- Equipment Life & Failure Patterns
- Failure Pattern F: Infant Mortality
- Features of Poor Maintenance
- Modern Reliability Views
- Maintenance Options
- Maintenance Policies
- Stand-alone
- Dedicated duty
- Dedicated standby
- Run-to-Failure
- Hidden Failure
- RCM Application
- Benefits
- IPF, RBI and RCM Development