Designing Maintenance Strategies for Medium-Voltage Electrical Distribution Networks

Build a working method for medium-voltage network maintenance that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.

📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Equipment involved in medium-voltage network maintenance rarely fails without warning; the warning is usually in data nobody reviewed. The reliability of the wider engineering and maintenance work agenda is decided at design and procurement, long before the first breakdown. The most reliable predictor of sound this area of engineering and maintenance work is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. It concentrates on the parts of medium-voltage network maintenance that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the practice within engineering and maintenance work, in large organisations and small ones alike. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this aspect of engineering and maintenance work to standardise and which to leave flexible. Buying a tool rarely fixes medium-voltage network maintenance; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants apply this part of engineering and maintenance work to their own asset base throughout, so the output is directly usable. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this strand of engineering and maintenance work ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Assess energy efficiency and losses associated with medium-voltage network maintenance.

02

Calculate life cycle cost for medium-voltage network maintenance and support repair-versus-replace decisions.

03

Specify acceptance criteria for work performed on medium-voltage network maintenance.

04

Assign clear ownership for each element of medium-voltage network maintenance across the functions involved.

05

Adapt recognised practice on medium-voltage network maintenance to local constraints without hollowing it out.

06

Sequence improvements to medium-voltage network maintenance so that each step makes the next one easier.

07

Define the spares holding for medium-voltage network maintenance against lead time and consequence.

Who Should Attend

01

Department heads accountable for the results of medium-voltage network maintenance.

02

Project engineers commissioning assets involved in medium-voltage network maintenance.

03

Internal auditors reviewing how medium-voltage network maintenance is designed and operated.

04

Spares and stores controllers supporting medium-voltage network maintenance.

05

Contractor supervisors performing work on medium-voltage network maintenance.

06

Engineering supervisors allocating work on medium-voltage network maintenance.

Course Modules

01

Medium-voltage network maintenance: safe isolation and permit control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Spares for medium-voltage network maintenance: lead time against consequence

  • Identify critical spares for medium-voltage network maintenance and confirm lead times against consequence.
  • Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Choose the maintenance strategy for medium-voltage network maintenance based on failure pattern, not tradition.
  • Name a single owner for each element of medium-voltage network maintenance.

Session 2Choosing a maintenance strategy for medium-voltage network maintenance on evidence

  • Anticipate the objections medium-voltage network maintenance will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Calculate the ratio of planned to reactive work on medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Specify condition monitoring on medium-voltage network maintenance that gives usable warning time.
02

Medium-voltage network maintenance: failure modes, consequence and criticality

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on medium-voltage network maintenance starts

  • Build the competence framework that supports medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Confirm lubrication, alignment and balance standards applied to medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Build the life cycle cost model supporting repair or replace on medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to medium-voltage network maintenance will be introduced.

Session 2Keeping drawings for medium-voltage network maintenance current after modification

  • Verify six months later that changes to medium-voltage network maintenance have held.
  • Define the turnaround scope for medium-voltage network maintenance and freeze it before mobilisation.
  • List the credible failure modes of medium-voltage network maintenance and the consequence of each.
  • Record who is competent to work on medium-voltage network maintenance and when requalification is due.
03

Medium-voltage network maintenance: choosing the right maintenance strategy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of medium-voltage network maintenance honestly

  • Assign a criticality rating to medium-voltage network maintenance that drives work order priority.
  • Identify single points of dependency in medium-voltage network maintenance and reduce them.
  • Update drawings and documentation after every modification to medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Prepare the summary of medium-voltage network maintenance that senior management will read.

Session 2Planning work on medium-voltage network maintenance so it does not become reactive

  • Agree what will be standardised in medium-voltage network maintenance and what will not.
  • Investigate repeat failures on medium-voltage network maintenance to root cause, not to component.
  • Draft the minimum viable maintenance procedure for medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in medium-voltage network maintenance.
04

Medium-voltage network maintenance: turnarounds, contractors and scope control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making medium-voltage network maintenance work when resources are constrained

  • Remove steps in medium-voltage network maintenance that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Define acceptance criteria for medium-voltage network maintenance in advance.
  • Record what was learned when medium-voltage network maintenance did not go as planned.
  • Check that medium-voltage network maintenance still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.

Session 2Investigating the failure on medium-voltage network maintenance that keeps returning

  • Set inspection intervals for medium-voltage network maintenance from condition data where it exists.
  • Define acceptance criteria for completed work on medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for medium-voltage network maintenance.
  • Set out the decisions in medium-voltage network maintenance that require sign-off and by whom.

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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

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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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