COURSE OVERVIEW

  This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators.

 

This course presents a systematic approach to fault diagnosis and failure analysis in the process, manufacturing, power generation and mining industries. A highly effective root cause failure analysis (RCFA) method is explained in detail.

 

The course will highlight two different approaches to fault investigation: One, addressing sporadic failures and two, solving inherent, chronic or recurring faults in equipment and systems. The course is based on the existence of three distinct levels of causes, namely immediate or physical causes, human causes and latent root causes. The course will illustrate how to perform data analysis to solve recurring failures by investigating real life equipment failure events. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own failure statistics for manual (plotting) or computerized failure pattern analysis. 

 

Finally, it will be shown how to prepare recommendations based on faultfinding investigations and assure results by organizing effective follow-up processes. By reference to specific case studies, dealing with equipment components, centrifugal pumps and reciprocating compressors, it will be demonstrated that such a systematic program can lead to significant failure reductions and thus contribute to continuous improvement.

 

Upon completion of this course, participants will gain an understanding of structured, results-oriented root cause failure analysis methods.  Participants will learn how parts fail and why they fail in a given mode related to cause.  Participants will be able to approach the analysis of failures that happen either sporadically or chronically. They will also learn how to set up failure analysis teams and gain a thorough understanding of the importance of failure or repair data collecting. They will gain knowledge in applying statistical techniques in the analysis of available historical failure data enabling them to formulate maintenance and operating strategies. Everyone will leave with several techniques that they could apply right away in their daily work of failure fighting.