Self-Paced Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

This self-paced course is approximately 32+ hours in duration, 13 modules in a self-paced format complete with video tutorials, instruction with questions-correct answers, and a participant workbook.

This course is encouraged for any professional who hopes for and expects to learn and perform maintenance and reliability at a higher level.  Not restricted to maintenance personnel.

• Operations vice presidents, managers
• Production vice presidents, supervisors
• Engineering vice presidents
• Maintenance directors, managers, supervisors, engineers, superintendents, personnel
• Reliability managers, engineers
• Manufacturing managers
• Storeroom managers, technicians
• Continuous Improvement managers
• TPM coordinators
• Plant engineers

This self-paced offering is 1 of 2 options to complete the required course towards the Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate (MRM).  The options to complete the required course towards the MRM Certificate are:

-    Self-paced Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices, with instructors Ramesh Gulati and George Williams

-    Attend the 4-day course entitled Best Practices in Maintenance and Reliability, with instructor John L Ross, in Madison or live online

Module 1: INTRODUCING BEST PRACTICES

• Introduction
• Understanding Best Practices
• Using Performance Benchmarks
• Assessment

Module 2: CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP

• Introduction
• Defining Leadership and Management
• Characteristics of a Leader
• Building a Reliability Culture
• Assessment

Module 3: UNDERSTANDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

• Introduction
• Structured Maintenance Management
• CMMS (Maintenance Management System)
• Maintenance Quality
• Assessment

Module 4: WORK MANAGEMENT / PLANNING AND SCHEDULING

• Introduction
• Work Management and Flow
• Asset Data Management
• Review of Maintenance Work Classification
• Work Classification and Prioritization
• Planning Process
• Scheduling Process
• Assessment

Module 5: STOREROOM AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

• Introduction
• Materials, Parts and Inventory Management
• Storage Considerations
• Storage Optimization
• Assessment

Module 6: MEASURING AND DESIGNING FOR MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY

• Introduction
• What are Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability
• Reliability Analysis
• Designing and Building for Reliability
• Assessment

Module 7: OPERATOR DRIVEN RELIABILITY

• Introduction
• Operations Role
• OEE and TEEP
• Assessment

Module 8: MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION

• Introduction
• Understanding Failure
• RCM Analysis
• Maintenance Strategy – CMB
• Other Strategies
• Assessment

Module 9: MANAGING PERFORMANCE

• Introduction
• Identifying Performance Measures
• Assessment

Module 10: WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT

• Introduction
• Workforce Demographics
• Communication and Time Management
• Developing People
• Assessment

Module 11: PROBLEM-SOLVING AND IMPROVEMENT TOOLS

• Introduction
• Maintenance and Reliability Toolbox
• Assessment

Module 12: STANDARDS AND STANDARDIZATION

• Introduction
• Codes, Standards and Standardization
• ISO Management System Standards
• Assessment

Module 13: CURRENT TRENDS AND PRACTICES

• Introduction
• Sustainability and Energy Management
• Safety and Risk Management
• Other Trends and Practices
• Assessment

Ramesh Gulati

Ramesh Gulati has over 55 years of diversified experience in people, product, process development and improvement as it relates to consumer goods, process/service and the heavy metal industry. Mr. Gulati has a broad background in operations analysis and process improvements, including kaizen, reengineering, performance measurement/metrics, plant reliability and maintenance process improvement tools/techniques (e.g., CMMS, CBM/PdM, TPM, RCM), implementation of ISO-certified asset management systems, energy management and people development.

George Williams

George is the founder and CEO of ReliabilityX. He has a master’s degree in reliability engineering from Monash University. He began his career working for his father in maintenance – performing PMs on trucks and trailers – while in high school. George spent 16 years with a major pharmaceutical company, where he began as a technician and worked his way up to global asset management. In 2015, George’s global team won the Uptime Award for Best Maintenance and Reliability Program. He is a certified maintenance and reliability professional and certified reliability leader. In 2016, he was recognized by the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals as Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional of the Year. He has earned certifications in vibration analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound, motion amplification, and plant maintenance management. George is a published author and a recognized leader in reliability. He’s been teaching maintenance and reliability classes for UW-Madison Interdisciplinary Professional Programs since 2010.