Diagnose whether a problem in control loop fault finding is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Designing Fault-Finding Programmes for Automatic Control Loops
Practical training in control loop fault finding, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Maintenance budgets are cut on control loop fault finding in good years and paid for in bad ones. Participants gain a realistic view of what fault finding costs and what it returns. It treats this aspect of engineering and maintenance work as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. The level assumes working familiarity with the asset base but no prior formal training in control loop fault finding. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the engineering and maintenance work discipline is rarely technical. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in fault finding rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Progress on control loop fault finding is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make fault finding sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assign clear ownership for each element of fault finding across the functions involved.
Measure maintenance performance on control loop fault finding with indicators that drive behaviour.
Determine the failure modes of fault finding and the consequence of each.
Investigate repeat failures on control loop fault finding to root cause.
Recognise early indicators that fault finding is drifting away from its intended design.
Select the maintenance strategy for control loop fault finding — run to failure, preventive, or condition-based — on evidence.
Who Should Attend
Plant and facility managers accountable for availability of control loop fault finding.
Maintenance managers and planners responsible for fault finding.
Engineering supervisors allocating work on control loop fault finding.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of fault finding directly.
Reliability engineers analysing failures in control loop fault finding.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to fault finding that has grown up informally.
Course Modules
Control loop fault finding: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What condition data on control loop fault finding is telling you early
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for control loop fault finding.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of fault finding current.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of control loop fault finding before proposing changes.
- Rank the weaknesses in fault finding by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Session 2Who answers for fault finding, and to whom
- Choose the maintenance strategy for control loop fault finding based on failure pattern, not tradition.
- Compare the cost of fault finding with the cost of its absence.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for control loop fault finding.
- Prepare the summary of fault finding that senior management will read.
Fault finding: safe isolation and permit control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out fault finding and capturing what was learned
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on control loop fault finding.
- Reduce the variation in how fault finding is carried out between teams.
- Test the procedure for control loop fault finding against a realistic scenario.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to fault finding will be introduced.
Session 2Planning work on fault finding so it does not become reactive
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on control loop fault finding.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about fault finding.
- Assign a criticality rating to control loop fault finding that drives work order priority.
- Identify where judgement in fault finding is legitimate and where it is not.
Fault finding: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing a maintenance strategy for fault finding on evidence
- Build the competence framework that supports control loop fault finding.
- Agree the smallest change to fault finding that would be visibly useful.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether control loop fault finding is improving.
- Build the internal briefing that explains fault finding to those affected.
Session 2Isolating control loop fault finding safely before work begins
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to control loop fault finding.
- Confirm that reporting on fault finding reaches the people who can act.
- Investigate repeat failures on control loop fault finding to root cause, not to component.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around fault finding are understood.
Fault finding: failure modes, consequence and criticality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where fault finding typically breaks, and why
- Set maintenance indicators for control loop fault finding that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Arrange the handover of fault finding so capability survives staff changes.
- List the credible failure modes of control loop fault finding and the consequence of each.
- Set out the decisions in fault finding that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Investigating the failure on fault finding that keeps returning
- Verify six months later that changes to control loop fault finding have held.
- Set escalation thresholds for fault finding that work out of hours.
- Record what was learned when control loop fault finding did not go as planned.
- Set the review interval for fault finding and who attends.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- 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
USD1,850
- 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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