• Objectives

    This module will discuss some maintenance concepts and the fundamental results to be achieved by the maintenance function when it is using these concepts.

    Learning Outcome

    After successfully completing this module you will be able to:

    • Understand the objective for using a maintenance concept
    • Implement some commonly used result indicators for any concept
    • Understand the advantages and possible disadvantages in using some result indicators

    Prerequisites / Related Topics

    Goals, strategies, result, measurement



  • Objectives

    The ultimate objective of every maintenance department is to maintain the company’s equipment in high operational condition in the most economically effective way. However, assessing the economic performance of a maintenance department is not a simple task. This module provides guidelines for the computation and analysis of the economic results of maintenance which enable the assessment and improvement of its economic performance.

    Learning Outcome

    Upon completion of this chapter the trainee will be able to:

    • Evaluate the economic performance of the maintenance procedures within a company
    • Monitor the progress of the economic effectiveness of maintenance over time
    • Detect potential problems and weaknesses

    Prerequisites / Related Topics:

    Pre-requisites: Measurements

    Related Topics: Analysis of the technical performance of the assets,

    Keywords:

    Economic performance, Key performance indicators, Total maintenance cost, Improvement actions


  • Objectives

    This module will discuss some general guidelines for the technical documentation to be supplied with an item and the documentation of information to be established within the operational phase of an item in order to support the maintenance requirements.

    Learning Outcome

    After successfully completing this module you will be able to:

    Prerequisites / Related Topics

    Goals, strategies, result, preventive and inspection activities, measurement, determination of human & material resources

    Related Keywords

    Maintenance documents, Concept of document, Normative documentation


  • Objectives

    The course is dealing with maintenance related European legislation and its implementation; mainly health and safety at work legislation, for the use of equipment and facilities and for the design and construction of machinery.

    Learning Outcome

    Employers need to know how they can make their workplaces safer; workers need to be aware of the risks they face, and know how to manage them. The reader, after successfully completing this course, will know about:

    • Existing European Community legislation relevant to safety and health at work and more specifically in maintenance related operations.
    • Occupational safety and health; about preventing people from being harmed or made ill through work, the disciplines concerned with preserving and protecting human and other resources in the workplace.
    • Theory and methodology about safety risk assessment in industrial maintenance.
    • Occupational risks in industrial maintenance

    Prerequisites / Related Topics:

    Pre-requisites: None

    Related Topics:
    1.1. Maintenance involvement in design, procurement and operation of assets
    1.2. Preventive and inspection activities
    1.3. Repair techniques and methods
    1.5. Work execution

    Keywords

    European legislation, OSH (Occupational Safety and Health), Risk assessment, Maintenance


  • Objectives

    The aim of the course is to familiarize the reader with the main issues concerning the area of maintenance human and material sourcing. A summary of the procedures that should be followed by a Maintenance Manager in order to establish a human and material resource system in maintenance is presented. The procedures, models, and techniques presented in this course for planning, designing, organizing, and controlling maintenance sourcing systems can be adapted by all organizations that perform a maintenance operation.

    Learning Outcome

    Maintenance managers and engineers have to take many decisions and face many problems during the planning, designing, organizing, scheduling and controlling procedures of a maintenance sourcing system. The reader, after successfully completing this course, will know about:

    • The procedures of maintenance (human and material) sourcing.
    • The techniques/models that can be used in every area of the maintenance sourcing procedures.
    • Theory and methodology about sourcing strategies.
    • A framework for implementing sourcing strategies.

    Prerequisites / Related Topics:

    Pre-requisites:
    1.2 Preventive and inspection activities
    1.4 Goal, strategies, results
    2.4 Measurements
    3.1 Maintenance concepts (Dependability / Availability Performance)

    Related Topics:
    1.5 Work execution
    2.5 Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

    Keywords

    Resourcing strategies, Maintenance planning, Resource control, Outsourcing