Plan the handover of process automation and control maintenance so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Industrial Process Automation and Control System Maintenance
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to process automation and control maintenance.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Maintenance budgets are cut on process automation and control maintenance in good years and paid for in bad ones. The content is relevant to those who own control maintenance and to those who are held accountable for its results. The course gives participants a defensible structure for the practice within engineering and maintenance work and the judgement to adapt it. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of process automation and control maintenance rather than to abstract argument. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better this aspect of engineering and maintenance work is rarely technical. They acquire practical criteria for judging when control maintenance is working and when it is only appearing to. Plans for process automation and control maintenance often fail at the handover point between functions. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on control maintenance ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build the inspection and test plan covering control maintenance.
Specify acceptance criteria for work performed on process automation and control maintenance.
Determine the failure modes of control maintenance and the consequence of each.
Document decisions about process automation and control maintenance in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Establish escalation routes for control maintenance that work outside normal hours.
Measure maintenance performance on process automation and control maintenance with indicators that drive behaviour.
Who Should Attend
Maintenance managers and planners responsible for process automation and control maintenance.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over control maintenance.
Engineering supervisors allocating work on process automation and control maintenance.
Business partners who must understand control maintenance well enough to challenge it.
Safety officers reviewing hazards created by work on process automation and control maintenance.
Plant and facility managers accountable for availability of control maintenance.
Course Modules
Process automation and control maintenance: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on process automation and control maintenance starts
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in process automation and control maintenance.
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on control maintenance.
- Choose the maintenance strategy for process automation and control maintenance based on failure pattern, not tradition.
- List the credible failure modes of control maintenance and the consequence of each.
Session 2How control maintenance actually fails, and how much warning you get
- Collect evidence on the present handling of process automation and control maintenance before proposing changes.
- Build the competence framework that supports control maintenance.
- Investigate repeat failures on process automation and control maintenance to root cause, not to component.
- Verify six months later that changes to control maintenance have held.
Control maintenance: safe isolation and permit control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating the failure on control maintenance that keeps returning
- Rank the weaknesses in process automation and control maintenance by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Assign a criticality rating to control maintenance that drives work order priority.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether process automation and control maintenance is improving.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for control maintenance.
Session 2Moving control maintenance from approval to execution
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on process automation and control maintenance.
- Set the review interval for control maintenance and who attends.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to process automation and control maintenance will be introduced.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about control maintenance.
Control maintenance: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What condition data on control maintenance is telling you early
- Set out the decisions in process automation and control maintenance that require sign-off and by whom.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of control maintenance current.
- Record what was learned when process automation and control maintenance did not go as planned.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to control maintenance.
Session 2Maintenance indicators for process automation and control maintenance that change behaviour
- Agree what will be standardised in process automation and control maintenance and what will not.
- Set maintenance indicators for control maintenance that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in process automation and control maintenance.
- Rehearse the briefing on control maintenance that would follow an incident.
Control maintenance: failure modes, consequence and criticality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of control maintenance honestly
- Confirm that contractual obligations around process automation and control maintenance are understood.
- Identify where judgement in control maintenance is legitimate and where it is not.
- Anticipate the objections process automation and control maintenance will raise and prepare the answers.
- Arrange the handover of control maintenance so capability survives staff changes.
Session 2Choosing a maintenance strategy for control maintenance on evidence
- Compare the cost of process automation and control maintenance with the cost of its absence.
- Establish the boundary of control maintenance and record what sits outside it.
- Close out actions on process automation and control maintenance rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Define acceptance criteria for control maintenance in advance.
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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