Preventive & Predictive Maintenance for Total Productive Maintenance  Workshop 

Course Overview

 

In Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) overlapping teams work together to ensure plant and equipment reach its highest reliability.

 

Managers, Engineers, Technicians/ Artisans and Equipment Operators combine to undertake the care of machinery and improve reliability through the use of effective Preventive, Predictive and Corrective Maintenance. 

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This 2-day workshop takes attendees through the investigation, analysis, selection, document development and implementation of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance for use in a TPM program.

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A Preventive Maintenance program (PM program)

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• is a series of routines, procedures and steps taken (including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement) to identify and resolve potential equipment problems before they happen.  

• The purpose is to ensure that machines last longer, that production quality is maintained and that delivery schedules are met. 

• It requires systematic replacement of aged parts, plus the inspection, detection, and correction of embryonic failures either before they occur or before they develop into major problems.

 

Predictive Maintenance (PdM), or Condition Monitoring (CM)

 

• is the process of monitoring the trend in a measured condition of a machine or a component to gauge the condition under observation.

• Vibration, noise, wear, thickness and temperature measurements are often used as key indicators of the state of a machine and technologies such as vibration analysis, tribology and thermography are examples of Condition Monitoring techniques.

• Condition based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that involves monitoring and testing vital machine and equipment parameters for their state. 

• This is done in order to predict machine failures and to do restoration to avoid hazards which could otherwise occur if minimum requirements are surpassed.

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NOTE: This workshop is not about developing and conducting a complete TPM program.  It only covers the selection of the maintenance tasks to be done in a TPM program.  It includes the improvement of plant and equipment reliability through the use of effective maintenance strategy and the application of better maintenance practices and skills.