Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management training courses
Keep plant running through planned, reliability driven maintenance and sound asset decisions.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Planned Preventive Maintenance
Reactive maintenance is the most expensive way to keep plant running. This course covers the design and running of a preventive maintenance programme: what to maintain, how often, and how to prove the programme is working.
Reliability Centred Maintenance
Reliability centred maintenance asks what each asset must do and what happens when it cannot, then selects maintenance accordingly. This course teaches the analysis method and how to apply it without drowning in paperwork.
Root Cause Failure Analysis
Equipment that fails repeatedly is usually being repaired rather than fixed. This course builds the investigative discipline to trace a failure to its physical, human and system roots and to implement corrections that hold.
Asset Management to ISO 55001
Asset management aligns what an organisation does to its assets with what it is trying to achieve. This course covers building a management system to the recognised standard, from policy and strategic plan through to assurance.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Planning and scheduling are distinct disciplines and both are commonly done badly. This course separates them clearly and builds the routines that raise wrench time and reduce the disruption of unplanned work.
Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance
Condition monitoring detects deterioration early enough to plan a repair rather than suffer a breakdown. This course covers the main techniques, how to read what they produce and how to build a monitoring programme worth its cost.
Corrosion Control and Protective Coatings
Corrosion quietly consumes a large share of asset value. This course explains the mechanisms, how to select materials and coatings sensibly, and how to inspect and maintain protection over the life of an asset.
Shutdown and Turnaround Management
A turnaround compresses a year of work into a few weeks with the plant losing money every hour. This course covers the preparation, scope control and execution discipline that separate a controlled shutdown from an overrun.
Spare Parts and Maintenance Stores Management
Maintenance stores tie up capital while still failing to have the part that is needed. This course covers the stocking decisions, controls and cataloguing that raise availability without inflating inventory.
Lubrication Management and Oil Analysis
A large share of bearing and gearbox failures trace back to the wrong lubricant, the wrong quantity or contamination. This course covers selecting lubricants, controlling contamination and reading oil analysis results.
Mechanical Seals and Rotating Equipment
Pumps and rotating machines fail most often at the seal and the bearing. This course covers alignment, balance, seal selection and installation practice that determine whether rotating equipment runs for years or months.
Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
Maintenance systems usually hold poor data because they were configured around software features rather than the maintenance process. This course covers structuring asset data, work order flow and reporting so the system supports decisions.
Welding Inspection and Fabrication Quality
Welded joints carry load and pressure, and defects in them are rarely visible after the fact. This course covers welding processes, common defects and the inspection and testing that verify a fabrication is sound.
Facilities and Building Services Maintenance
Buildings fail their occupants through services rather than structure: air conditioning, water, lifts and power. This course covers maintaining building services, managing contractors and meeting statutory inspection obligations.
Hydraulics and Pneumatics Maintenance
Fluid power systems fail through contamination and leaks far more than through component defect. This course covers reading circuits, diagnosing faults and the cleanliness discipline that determines component life.
Vibration Analysis Level Two
Basic vibration monitoring detects that something is wrong; diagnosis requires reading the spectrum properly. This course covers spectral analysis, phase measurement and distinguishing faults that look alike on a trend.
Maintenance Budgeting and Cost Control
Maintenance budgets are cut in the years nothing breaks and blown in the years everything does. This course covers building a defensible maintenance budget and demonstrating the cost of deferring work.
Boiler and Pressure Equipment Operation
Pressure equipment fails rarely and catastrophically, which is why its operation and inspection are tightly governed. This course covers safe operation, water treatment and the statutory inspection regime.
Warehouse Equipment and Materials Handling Maintenance
Forklifts, conveyors and racking fail in ways that stop a warehouse and injure people. This course covers the inspection and maintenance regime for handling equipment and the statutory duties attached to it.
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Maintenance
Cooling systems fail through refrigerant loss, fouling and control faults, usually during the hottest week of the year. This course covers maintaining refrigeration and air conditioning plant reliably and legally.
Structural Inspection and Building Integrity
Structural problems announce themselves through cracks, deflection and water long before failure. This course covers inspecting structures, recognising what matters and deciding what needs engineering assessment.
Maintenance Contract Management
Outsourced maintenance often costs more and delivers less because the contract measured attendance rather than equipment condition. This course covers specifying and managing maintenance contracts around outcomes.
Failure Data and Reliability Statistics
Maintenance intervals are usually set by habit rather than by what failure data shows. This course covers collecting usable failure data and applying reliability analysis to set intervals and predict failures.
Water and Wastewater Plant Operations
Treatment plants must meet discharge standards continuously with variable incoming loads. This course covers operating and maintaining water and wastewater treatment processes reliably.
Predictive Maintenance with Sensor Data
Sensors on equipment produce data that mostly sits unused. This course covers turning continuous machine data into predictions that trigger maintenance before failure.
Rotating Machine Alignment and Balancing
Misalignment and imbalance destroy bearings and seals quietly, and both are correctable with the right method. This course covers aligning and balancing machines properly.
Plant Availability and Downtime Analysis
Downtime is recorded as hours lost without recording why, so the same causes recur. This course covers measuring availability properly and attacking the losses that matter.
Compressed Air Systems Efficiency
Compressed air is among the most expensive utilities in a plant and among the most wasted, mostly through leaks nobody hears. This course covers running an efficient compressed air system.
Steam Systems and Thermal Efficiency
Steam systems lose energy through failed traps, poor insulation and unrecovered condensate, all of it invisible on a walk round. This course covers finding and eliminating those losses.
Turnaround Planning and Scope Freezing
Turnaround overruns are usually caused by scope that kept growing after the plan was fixed. This course covers building a turnaround scope and defending it against late additions.
Precision Alignment of Pumps and Motors
Pump and motor sets fail early when alignment is close enough rather than correct. This course covers precision alignment methods and the preparation that makes them hold.
Gearbox Inspection and Overhaul
Gearboxes give warning before they fail, and the warnings are visible to anyone who opens one and knows what to look for. This course covers inspecting, assessing and overhauling industrial gearboxes.
Maintenance Skills Matrix and Training
Maintenance teams carry critical knowledge in a few heads and discover the gap when someone leaves. This course covers mapping the skills a team needs and closing the gaps deliberately.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness Improvement
Effectiveness measures are widely reported and rarely used to change anything. This course covers measuring equipment effectiveness honestly and attacking the biggest losses.
Vibration Isolation and Foundation Design
Machines transmit vibration into structures and into each other, causing failures far from the source. This course covers isolating machinery and getting foundations right.
Compressor Overhaul and Testing
Compressors are among the most critical and most expensive machines on a site, and overhaul quality determines how long they run afterwards. This course covers stripping, assessing and rebuilding them.
Crane and Hoist Inspection
Lifting equipment fails without warning when inspection is a signature rather than an examination. This course covers inspecting cranes and hoists to the standard the law expects.
Thermal Imaging for Maintenance
Heat reveals loose connections, failing bearings and blocked flow before anything breaks, provided the image is taken and read correctly. This course covers thermographic inspection.
Maintenance Outsourcing Decisions
Outsourcing maintenance is often decided on headline rates and regretted when capability and knowledge leave with the staff. This course covers deciding what to outsource and what to keep.
Conveyor Belt Splicing and Tracking
A belt that runs off centre wears itself out and a bad splice fails under load, both stopping production. This course covers splicing, tensioning and tracking belts correctly.
Bearing Fitting and Removal Technique
Most premature bearing failures are caused during fitting, by force applied through the wrong ring or by contamination introduced on the bench. This course covers mounting and dismounting bearings without damaging them.
Electric Motor Rewinding and Repair
A rewound motor can come back more efficient than new or quietly worse, depending on how the work was done. This course covers motor repair, rewinding practice and testing what comes back.
Industrial Valves and Actuator Servicing
Valves leak, stick and fail to seat long before anyone schedules work on them. This course covers servicing the main valve types and their actuators.
Scaffolding Inspection for Maintenance Work
Maintenance teams work from scaffolding erected by someone else and signed off by someone who may not have looked closely. This course covers inspecting scaffolding competently before anyone climbs it.
Shift Handover and Operational Communication
A great many incidents trace back to something the outgoing shift knew and the incoming shift did not. This course covers handover that transfers understanding rather than paperwork.
Operator Rounds and Field Inspection Routines
Operator rounds are the cheapest condition monitoring an operation has and are usually reduced to a signature on a sheet. This course covers rounds that actually find developing faults.