COURSE OVERVIEW RE590
Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM)


 

Course Title 
Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM)  

Course Date/Venue
June 14-18, 2009/ Morjan Meeting Room, Mercure Hotel, Manama, Bahrain

Course Reference
RE590

Course Duration/Credits 
Five days/3.0 CEUs

Course Description
The chronic problem that many companies struggle with regarding reliability maintenance is transforming their mindset from being reactive to being predictive. The differences are extreme. Reactive maintenance doesn't address machine problems until production is impaired or machines fail. A next phase is preventive. This mindset involves repairing bearings, belts and machines based on a schedule or machine hours. What this doesn't insure is machine failure causing unplanned downtime and unexpected costs.

The predictive mindset is proactive. It involves collecting and analyzing machinery information on a periodic basis including vibration, ultrasonic and temperature readings. Predictive maintenance addresses and corrects the root causes of machine problems. It promotes reliability. The benefits of predictive maintenance are that it allows a company to plan down-time and repair machinery on a scheduled basis. Also, it identifies which machines and parts need to be repaired and replaced and which do not.

In process design, traditionally, maintenance is not studied until the process configuration has been fixed. However, this often misses the opportunities to reduce product life cycle cost. It is not only important to understand the behaviour of individual items of equipment, but also different system configurations.

This course presents recent, but proven, developments in reliability maintenance in a practical way enabling delegates to transform maintenance from a cost item to a profit center. The course covers the basic concepts of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) and procedures to apply them in the industry. A number of case studies are followed to aid understanding of how to use RAM, to analyse the unavailability issues in processes. The course will also introduce techniques that allow RAM to be fully integrated into conceptual design in order to optimise flowsheet design and minimise production life cycle cost. This is an extensive theoretical and hands-on course and exposes the participants to the concepts, principles and requirements for performing quantitative systems analysis. It presents a comprehensive coverage of system analysis theory and principles. Numerous examples, case studies will be presented to enhance learning and greater understanding.

Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:-

• Have a very good overview of Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) concepts including the RAM study general process

• Become familiar with the pacesetter characteristics in organizing for world class operations considering the steps toward pacesetter performance & framework for reliability excellence

• Distinguish the various types of equipment failure patterns and be able to review why equipment fails

• Know the principles of maintainability by identifying the different types of maintenance, discussing how maintenance influences equipment performance and determining the factors contributing to excessive maintenance

• List down the various types of monitoring techniques and be able to learn how to select & use the correct monitoring technique in your plant

• Introduce the concept of life cycle cost and be able to recognize its importance in RAM by giving practical examples and scenarios

• Understand availability concepts and be able to discover the relationship between reliability, availability and maintainability

• Employ the reliability centered maintenance program and be able to recognize the key questions for implementing RCM

• Demonstrate the methods used in reliability mathematics and be able to appreciate the approaches & benefits of availability modeling

• Carry-out the application of RAM principles to projects by considering the key elements of reliability, identifying the overall reliability goals and knowing the pros & cons

• Introduce the principle of human reliability and be able to use performance metrics to measure system performance effectiveness

• Appreciate the proven turnaround practices including the success factors, milestone plan, material procurement and process operations

Training Methodology
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of total tuition hours:-
50% Lectures
30% Workshops, Group Work & Practical Exercises
20% Videos & Software

Who Should Attend

• Managers, Section Heads and Planners

• Maintenance, Reliability, Machinery and Plant Engineers.

• Maintenance, Reliability, Machinery and Plant Superintendents/Supervisors.

• Maintenance, Plant and PMV Foremen

• Operations Managers, Engineers and Supervisors

• Process Engineers and Mechanical Engineers

Course Certificate
Haward Technology certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total tuition hours of the course.

Course Accreditation
Haward Technology’s courses/workshops/seminars meet the professional certification and continuing education requirements for participants seeking Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in accordance with the rules & regulations of the International Association for Continuing Education & Training (IACET). IACET is an international authority that evaluates programs according to strict, research-based criteria and guidelines. The CEU is an internationally accepted uniform unit of measurement in qualified courses of continuing education.

Haward Technology has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102, USA. In obtaining this approval, Haward Technology has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard which are widely recognized as standards of good practice internationally. As a result of our Authorized Provider membership status, Haward Technology is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard.

Haward Technology Middle East will award 3.0 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for participants who completed the total tuition hours of this program. One CEU is equivalent to ten Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or ten contact hours of the participation in and completion of Haward Technology programs. A permanent record of a participant’s involvement and awarding of CEU will be maintained by Haward Technology. Haward Technology will provide a copy of the participant’s CEU Transcript of Records upon request.

Course Fee
US $ 3,750 per Delegate. This fee includes Participant’s Pack (Folder, Manual, Hand-outs, etc.), buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning and afternoon of each day. 

Accommodation
Accommodation is not included in the course fees. However, any accommodation required can be arranged by Haward Technology at the time of booking.

Course Instructor
Keith Balchin, (UK)... More

Course Coordinator
Lily Hijazi, Tel: +971-2-44 88 301, Fax: +971-2-44 88 302, Email: lily@haward.org