Rotating Equipment Failure Analysis and Reliability Optimization

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
21 Dec 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register

Rotating Equipment Failure Analysis and Reliability Optimization

Introduction

Benchmarking studies on various oil refineries around the world by Solomon Associates have shown that rotating equipment accounts for more than 20% of all maintenance and inspection costs. In addition, rotating equipment is often at key nodes of the process and is frequently critical to production. Therefore failure would lead to unacceptable downtime costs.

This program aims to provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of how to use a combined predictive and preventive maintenance approach coupled with proper failure monitoring to achieve maximum reliability and performance from rotating equipment.

Objectives

    By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

    • Apply the proven methodologies and templates which are introduced
    • Focus on key areas of reliability
    • Understand the nature of failure and how this affects the performance of rotating equipment
    • Make the right maintenance choices for strategic equipment
    • Reduce the impact of plant downtime
    • Unlock the true potential of all of their people

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.

Who Should Attend?

Personnel who should attend are:

  • Reliability Engineers
  • Maintenance Planners
  • Maintenance Supervisors
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Operations and Process Team Leaders

Course Outline

Day 1: Understanding the link between Reliability and competitive advantage

  • Definition of Reliability
  • Probability of failure
  • Reliability metrics
  • Strategic Importance of Reliability
  • Assessing current performance
  • Making the right strategic choices

Day 2: Using reliability modeling to establish inherent reliability

  • Basic modeling building blocks
  • Deterministic models
  • Probabilistic models
  • Markov chains
  • Monte Carlo models
  • Case study examples

Day 3: Understanding the nature of failures in order to make the best response

  • Origins of failure
  • Failure types
  • Six common patterns
  • Analyzing failure patterns
  • Weibull analysis
  • Maintenance tasks

Day 4: Optimising your failure management to ensure that maintenance is cost-effective

  • Risk assessment & criticality
  • Equipment functions
  • Functional failures
  • Failure modes and effects analysis
  • Failure consequences
  • Maintenance task selection
  • Producing a practical maintenance plan

Day 5: Setting up a continuous reliability improvement process in order to improve performance

  • Assessing the improvement potential versus the costs
  • Obtaining senior management support
  • Establishing the project framework
  • Technical aspects
  • Human considerations
  • Likely results

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