Model the economics of reliability and equipment availability under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Reliability Engineering and Equipment Availability in the Petrochemical Sector
A practical programme in reliability and equipment availability for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on reliability and equipment availability both accrue interest. In energy operations the cost of getting equipment availability wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. The programme is built to be used, and every section of the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline it covers ends in something applicable. It is written for people who have to make reliability and equipment availability work with the resources they already have. They leave able to brief senior management on this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations in terms that support a decision. Moving equipment availability from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place reliability and equipment availability among the areas with the widest performance spread. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about equipment availability in their own setting. The final module sets out how progress on this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Distinguish the parts of equipment availability that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor reliability and equipment availability reliably.
Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to equipment availability across the asset life cycle.
Document decisions about reliability and equipment availability in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Present the case for investment in equipment availability in terms that a finance function will accept.
Verify that contractors working on reliability and equipment availability meet the same standard as direct staff.
Who Should Attend
Project engineers delivering capital work involving reliability and equipment availability.
Team leaders and supervisors who put equipment availability into practice day to day.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in reliability and equipment availability.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with equipment availability in real time.
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting reliability and equipment availability.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling equipment availability.
Course Modules
Reliability and equipment availability: competence, certification and handover
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the last incident involving reliability and equipment availability should have taught us
- Agree what will be standardised in reliability and equipment availability and what will not.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on equipment availability.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of reliability and equipment availability.
- Review the instrumentation on equipment availability for coverage gaps.
Session 2Reading the current state of equipment availability honestly
- Name a single owner for each element of reliability and equipment availability.
- Review whether equipment availability is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Set out how exceptions to reliability and equipment availability are requested and approved.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to equipment availability.
Equipment availability: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on equipment availability starts
- Anticipate the objections reliability and equipment availability will raise and prepare the answers.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on equipment availability.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios reliability and equipment availability can create.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in equipment availability.
Session 2What the instrumentation on equipment availability is and is not telling you
- Establish what evidence demonstrates reliability and equipment availability is under control.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving equipment availability.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on reliability and equipment availability.
- Define the safe operating envelope for equipment availability and how deviations are detected.
Equipment availability: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in equipment availability and how to reason about them
- Confirm the inspection interval for reliability and equipment availability is based on condition, not habit.
- Rank the weaknesses in equipment availability by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to reliability and equipment availability and remove nuisance alarms.
- Define acceptance criteria for equipment availability in advance.
Session 2Spares, logistics and single points of failure in reliability and equipment availability
- Arrange the handover of reliability and equipment availability so capability survives staff changes.
- Verify isolation points for equipment availability are proven and documented.
- Identify the failure modes of reliability and equipment availability with the highest consequence.
- Plan the equipment availability scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
Equipment availability: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Fitting equipment availability into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of reliability and equipment availability.
- Model the economics of equipment availability at low, base and high price cases.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of reliability and equipment availability before proposing changes.
- Compare the cost of equipment availability with the cost of its absence.
Session 2Building the investment case for equipment availability that finance will accept
- Check that the permit regime covering reliability and equipment availability matches the actual hazard.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to equipment availability.
- Build the internal briefing that explains reliability and equipment availability to those affected.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether equipment availability is improving.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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