Process Operation Troubleshooting

Introduction:

This Process Operation Troubleshooting course is designed to enhance delegates' expertise by focusing on the latest research, trends, techniques, and strategies for optimizing operational performance. Through hands-on training, participants will gain essential knowledge and skills for improving demographics, infrastructure, systems, and plants. The course emphasizes key competencies crucial for effective operation and implementation, particularly relevant during the current global economic downturn. Participants will enhance their problem-solving abilities, develop actionable improvements, and achieve superior performance through strategic goal-setting and appropriate actions.

Objectives:

By the end of this Process Operation Troubleshooting course, participants will be able to:

• Relate the operational process to its core functions.
• Apply analytical techniques to review and select maintenance improvement tactics for process equipment and plants.
• Develop comprehensive operational process resource and support system analyses.
• Understand and implement operational audit principles and process standardization.
• Absorb leadership and motivation principles essential for technical process management and operations.

Training Methodology:

• Participative Seminars
• Training with Specific Tasks
• Research-based Investigations
• Simulation Tools
• Classroom Interaction

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Basics of Modern Operational Practices:

• Study of Modern Operational Practices in the Context of the Global Economic Recession
• Understanding the Interaction of Maintenance and Production for World-Class Operations
• Generic Performance Measurement Model using a 6-Point Scale
• Performance Measurement of Maintenance Efficiency: Speed, Quality, and Cost Parameters Integration
• Understanding Sub-Functions of TPP, the 10-Point Plan Significance, and the Plan Department’s Role
• Knowledge of Variability
• Formulating Operational Process Strategies for Continuous Improvement (CI)

Unit 2: Standard Maintenance Improvement Initiatives:

• Selecting the Right Range, Type, and Mix of Maintenance Interventions
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Run to Failure (RTF)
• Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)
• Sentinel Maintenance (TBM)
• Skill Level Enhancements (SLU)
• Elimination of Maintenance Needs (DOM)

Unit 3: Operational Resource Analysis:

• Framework for Monitoring and Effectiveness in Operational Practice
• Resource and Support System Analysis: “Gap Analysis”
• Leadership and Motivation of the Operations Team
• PAS 55 Maintenance Document Protocol
• Information Management Principles
• Training, Awareness, and Competence

Unit 4: Problem Solving in the Operations Environment:

• Risk Identification, Assessment, and Control
• Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
• Problem Solving Methods and Their Application

Unit 5: Scenario Analysis and Action Planning:

• Relationship Scenario Analysis
• Assessment Assignment
• Scoring Your Operational Process
• Addressing Difficulties