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17 - MSE - Maintenance, Scheduling, Planning


MSE-ON 152 - Decision Analysis for Operation & Maintenance Professionals (4 Days)

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Course Description

This comprehensive training course examines techniques for decision analysis with emphasis on prioritization and the decision making process to be carried out by Operation, Maintenance and Reliability Professionals. It provides a strong overall view of key decisions related to areas for operations, maintenance and reliability activities including examples related to these fields and case studies of learning from both success and failures.

Course Objectives

  • Improving productivity through use of better, timelier information
  • Understanding how world-class organizations solve common asset management problems
  • Optimizing planning and scheduling resources, carrying out optimized failure analyses
  • Optimizing asset management budgets by avoidance of unplanned equipment failures in service
  • Developing a practical approach of an action plan to utilize these technologies in their own areas of responsibility

Who Should Attend?

  • Operation Professionals
  • Maintenance Professionals
  • Reliability Professionals
  • Key Operations Supervisors
  • Internal Improvement Consultants

Course Details/Schedule

Day 1

  • Introduction to Decision Making
  • Scope and significance of decisions
  • The decision making process
  • The concept of best practice through learning from worst practice
  • Introduction to reliability and Weibull analysis

Day 2

  • Implementing Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
  • Definition of decision analysis
  • How, and why, bad decisions are made
  • Guidelines for good decision analysis
  • What is AHP?
  • Benefit/cost analysis
  • Resources allocation

Day 3

  • Risk Management through Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA)
  • Fault tree analysis
  • Risk priority number
  • The criticality matrix
  • Modelling reliability of systems
  • Series and parallel systems
  • The redundancy concept

Day 4

  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Rnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  • What is ERP and how did it develop
  • What is MRP system
  • The bill of materials
  • Master production schedule