Establish what evidence would demonstrate that magnetic particle inspection is under control.
Building Magnetic Particle Inspection Strategies for Surface Defects
Turn magnetic particle inspection from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Maintenance budgets are cut on magnetic particle inspection in good years and paid for in bad ones. Most organisations already have a policy on the practice within engineering and maintenance work; far fewer can show it working. Participants apply the engineering and maintenance work capability to their own asset base throughout, so the output is directly usable. The programme converts magnetic particle inspection from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to the engineering and maintenance work discipline in an order their organisation can absorb. The most reliable predictor of sound this aspect of engineering and maintenance work is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. It is written for people who have to make magnetic particle inspection work with the resources they already have. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this area of engineering and maintenance work broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Determine the failure modes of magnetic particle inspection and the consequence of each.
Set criticality ratings that drive work order priority for magnetic particle inspection.
Define the scope and boundaries of magnetic particle inspection so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Measure maintenance performance on magnetic particle inspection with indicators that drive behaviour.
Specify acceptance criteria for work performed on magnetic particle inspection.
Present the case for investment in magnetic particle inspection in terms that a finance function will accept.
Who Should Attend
Safety officers reviewing hazards created by work on magnetic particle inspection.
Plant and facility managers accountable for availability of magnetic particle inspection.
Mechanical, electrical and instrumentation technicians working on magnetic particle inspection.
Business partners who must understand magnetic particle inspection well enough to challenge it.
Managers in small and medium organisations who own magnetic particle inspection alongside other duties.
Maintenance managers and planners responsible for magnetic particle inspection.
Course Modules
Magnetic particle inspection: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating the failure on magnetic particle inspection that keeps returning
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for magnetic particle inspection.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to magnetic particle inspection will be introduced.
- List the credible failure modes of magnetic particle inspection and the consequence of each.
- Choose the maintenance strategy for magnetic particle inspection based on failure pattern, not tradition.
Session 2Reviewing magnetic particle inspection when nothing has gone wrong
- Compare the cost of magnetic particle inspection with the cost of its absence.
- Define the trigger that would require magnetic particle inspection to be redesigned.
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on magnetic particle inspection.
- Set out the decisions in magnetic particle inspection that require sign-off and by whom.
Magnetic particle inspection: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Planning work on magnetic particle inspection so it does not become reactive
- Collect evidence on the present handling of magnetic particle inspection before proposing changes.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for magnetic particle inspection.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether magnetic particle inspection is improving.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on magnetic particle inspection.
Session 2What condition data on magnetic particle inspection is telling you early
- Set escalation thresholds for magnetic particle inspection that work out of hours.
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on magnetic particle inspection.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around magnetic particle inspection are understood.
- Confirm that reporting on magnetic particle inspection reaches the people who can act.
Magnetic particle inspection: safe isolation and permit control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for magnetic particle inspection, and to whom
- Build the competence framework that supports magnetic particle inspection.
- Set maintenance indicators for magnetic particle inspection that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Investigate repeat failures on magnetic particle inspection to root cause, not to component.
- Establish the boundary of magnetic particle inspection and record what sits outside it.
Session 2Testing magnetic particle inspection before relying on it
- Review whether magnetic particle inspection is aligned with the objectives of the asset base.
- Anticipate the objections magnetic particle inspection will raise and prepare the answers.
- Rank the weaknesses in magnetic particle inspection by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Draft the minimum viable maintenance procedure for magnetic particle inspection.
Magnetic particle inspection: failure modes, consequence and criticality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1How magnetic particle inspection actually fails, and how much warning you get
- Assign a criticality rating to magnetic particle inspection that drives work order priority.
- Verify six months later that changes to magnetic particle inspection have held.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in magnetic particle inspection.
- Remove steps in magnetic particle inspection that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Maintenance indicators for magnetic particle inspection that change behaviour
- Agree the smallest change to magnetic particle inspection that would be visibly useful.
- Rehearse the briefing on magnetic particle inspection that would follow an incident.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to magnetic particle inspection.
- Define acceptance criteria for magnetic particle inspection in advance.
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- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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