RELIABILITY ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
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Are you a maintenance or reliability practitioner who is looking to drive performance at your plant?
BEMAS and GPAllied are proud to present a complete course in reliability engineering, combining the latest thinking and proven best practices in industry.
Maintenance and reliability experts with international experience will provide during four 3-day sessions in 2010 a unique training experience, delivering maximum knowledge transfer for those who are looking to drive performance at their plants.
You can download full program here.
These core sessions include:
Session 2 - Finding and Elminating Root Causes of Failure
4-6 May 2010
This session is designed to teach the attendee how to use a robust Root Cause Analysis methodology that can be succesfully be applied to all sizes and types of problems. The process uses the Logical Approach (Kepner Tregoe) as a management framework and incorporates the Difference Analysis, Causal Tree and Human Performance Evaluation or Logic Tree techniques. Other common RCA techniques will also be taught. Class lectures will be reinforced with numerous practice opportunities, so the attendee will feel comfortable going back to the job and attacking chronic plant problems and incidents right away.
Lecturer: Andy Page, Integrations Director at GPAllied, United States
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Session 3 - Best in Class Inspection & Condition Monitoring Practices for Improving Asset Health
7-9 September 2010
The course provides skills which will allow attendees to understand the application and integration of basic predictive maintenance technologies.
Lecturer: Andy Page, Integrations Director at GPAllied, United States
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Session 4 - Life Cycle Reliability Optimization
30 November - 2 December 2010
This course is designed to teach the principles of improving asset management and maintenance decision making using the fundamentals of reliability engineering principles.
Lecturer: Bill Keeter, Senior Technical Advisor at Allied Reliability
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Session 1bis - The Basics of Equipment Reliability
22 - 24 March 2011
This session focuses on preserving equipment functions by identifying appropriate Preventive Maintenance (PM) tasks, Predictive Maintenance (PdM) tasks, failiure finding tasks and other actions that protect against failure or mitigate the consequences of failure. Examples and exercises give participants hands on experience to help them begin to master RCM concepts. RCM or Reliability Centered Maintenance can be defined as a process used to determine what must be done to ensure that any phisical asset continues to do whatever its users want it to do in its present operating context. By this, RCM enables the reliability engineers to set up a reliability based maintenance program for new and existing equipment using an understanding of the different failiure patterns that machines exhibit and the appropriate countermeasures for each.
Lecturer: Maury Torrey, Reliability Professional at Allied Reliability
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Who should not miss this opportunity?
This training is designed for all but could be even more interesting for:
- Engineers or Technical Directors willing to develop their knowledge on reliability or to move towards reliability / maintenance
- Technical or Operational Directors willing to launch a reliability improvement project of their manufacturing equipment. Also those willing to restructure and improve their reliability management system.
- Junior Reliability and Maintenance Engineers
- Experienced Reliability and Maintenance Engineers
- Operational Managers
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
Introduction
Reliability engineering consists of the systematic application of time-honored engineering principles and techniques throughout a product lifecycle. It is thus an essential component of a good Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) program. The goal of reliability engineering is to evaluate the inherent reliability of a product or process and pinpoint potential areas for reliability improvementanother goal of reliability engineering is to identify the most likely failures and then identify appropriate actions to mitigate the effects of those failures.
What is reliability?
Reliability is a broad term that focuses on the ability of a product to perform its intended function. Mathematically speaking, assuming that an item is performing its intended function at time equals zero, reliability can be defined as the probability that an item will continue to perform its intended function without failure for a specified period of time under stated conditions. Please note that the product defined here could be an electronic or mechanical hardware product, a software product, a manufacturing process or even a service.
Why is Reliability important?
There are a number of reasons why reliability is an important product attribute, including:
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Reputation. A company's reputation is very closely related to the reliability of its products. The more reliable a product is, the more likely the company is to have a favourable reputation.
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Customer Satisfaction. While a reliable product may not dramatically affect customer satisfaction in a positive manner, an unreliable product will negatively affect customer satisfaction severely. Thus high reliability is a mandatory requirement for customer satisfaction.
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Warranty Costs. If a product fails to perform its function within the warranty period, the replacement and repair costs will negatively affect profits, as well as gain unwanted negative attention. Introducing reliability analysis is an important step in taking corrective action, ultimately leading to a product that is more reliable.
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Repeat Business. A concentrated effort towards improved reliability shows existing customers that a manufacturer is serious about its product, and committed to customer satisfaction. This type of attitude has a positive impact on future business.
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Cost Analysis. Manufacturers may take reliability data and combine it with other cost information to illustrate the cost-effectiveness of their products. This life cycle cost analysis can prove that although the initial cost of a product might be higher, the overall lifetime cost is lower than that of a competitor's because their product requires fewer repairs or less maintenance.
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Customer Requirements. Many customers in today's market demand that their suppliers have an effective reliability program. These customers have learned the benefits of reliability analysis from experience.
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Competitive Advantage. Many companies will publish their predicted reliability numbers to help gain an advantage over their competitors who either do not publish their numbers or have lower numbers.
PRACTICAL INFO
Participation fee: € 6.995,- *
€ 6.295,- * for BEMAS-members
Course language: English
The participation fee is for the complete 4 x 3 day session cycle and includes all course materials and lunches. Hotel and dinner are not included.
* prices are 21% VAT excluded
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You can download full program here.
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