Apply safe isolation, permit and lockout controls to work on reliability and availability indicators.
Designing Reliability and Availability Indicators for Critical Production Lines
An applied course in reliability and availability indicators built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
Course Overview
Maintenance budgets are cut on reliability and availability indicators in good years and paid for in bad ones. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better availability indicators is rarely technical. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this part of engineering and maintenance work under scrutiny. The course covers reliability and availability indicators at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider engineering and maintenance work agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. Every module pairs a short input on availability indicators with structured practice on the participant's own material. Progress on reliability and availability indicators is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The final module sets out how progress on availability indicators will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set a realistic target state for availability indicators and a defensible route to it.
Build the competence framework for technicians working on reliability and availability indicators.
Measure maintenance performance on availability indicators with indicators that drive behaviour.
Translate policy on reliability and availability indicators into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Determine the failure modes of availability indicators and the consequence of each.
Diagnose whether a problem in reliability and availability indicators is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Who Should Attend
Contractor supervisors performing work on reliability and availability indicators.
Risk managers assessing the exposure created by availability indicators.
Reliability engineers analysing failures in reliability and availability indicators.
Maintenance managers and planners responsible for availability indicators.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over reliability and availability indicators.
Mechanical, electrical and instrumentation technicians working on availability indicators.
Course Modules
Reliability and availability indicators: choosing the right maintenance strategy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where reliability and availability indicators typically breaks, and why
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about reliability and availability indicators.
- Identify where judgement in availability indicators is legitimate and where it is not.
- Record what was learned when reliability and availability indicators did not go as planned.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to availability indicators.
Session 2Planning work on availability indicators so it does not become reactive
- Confirm that those complying with reliability and availability indicators understand why it exists.
- List the credible failure modes of availability indicators and the consequence of each.
- Choose the maintenance strategy for reliability and availability indicators based on failure pattern, not tradition.
- Agree the smallest change to availability indicators that would be visibly useful.
Availability indicators: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing a maintenance strategy for availability indicators on evidence
- Reduce the variation in how reliability and availability indicators is carried out between teams.
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on availability indicators.
- Set escalation thresholds for reliability and availability indicators that work out of hours.
- Remove steps in availability indicators that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in availability indicators
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in reliability and availability indicators.
- Set maintenance indicators for availability indicators that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on reliability and availability indicators.
- Estimate the resource availability indicators requires to run as designed.
Availability indicators: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Maintenance indicators for availability indicators that change behaviour
- Agree what will be standardised in reliability and availability indicators and what will not.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in availability indicators.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether reliability and availability indicators is improving.
- Investigate repeat failures on availability indicators to root cause, not to component.
Session 2Isolating reliability and availability indicators safely before work begins
- Assign a criticality rating to reliability and availability indicators that drives work order priority.
- Build the competence framework that supports availability indicators.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for reliability and availability indicators.
- Set the review interval for availability indicators and who attends.
Availability indicators: failure modes, consequence and criticality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing availability indicators before relying on it
- Check that reliability and availability indicators still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Rehearse the briefing on availability indicators that would follow an incident.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of reliability and availability indicators current.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for availability indicators.
Session 2What condition data on availability indicators is telling you early
- Define acceptance criteria for reliability and availability indicators in advance.
- Map the handovers in availability indicators between functions and secure them.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around reliability and availability indicators are understood.
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on availability indicators.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- 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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