Description

Learner Profile:

This course is suitable for electrical or mechanical technicians and/or engineers who are setting up or operating a preventive maintenance programme.

Learner prerequisites:

Candidates should at minimum have completed the Junior Cert with pass grades in at least five ordinary level subjects (including Maths and English). 

Learners should be computer literate and have experience of working in an engineering environment.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the learners will be able to:

· Examine how maintenance theory and practice has responded to the changing demands brought about by increased customer expectations, lower unit costs and increasingly sophisticated technology.

· Explain how condition-based monitoring an essential part of a preventative maintenance philosophy.

· Explain the links between quality management and maintenance performance.

· Construct fault finding charts to enable operators to repair faults in a safe and competent manner.

· Explore how various maintenance strategies interrelate, and the central role played by preventive maintenance in reducing the costs and frequency of breakdown maintenance

· Describe change, the types of change and how change impacts on the maintenance function.

· Explore the increasing role of “soft” skills within the maintenance function.

· Evaluate maintenance philosophies to include making an informed decision as to what is best for a particular set of circumstances.

· Describe predictive maintenance techniques and how they highlight potential problems before they occur.

· Use basic statistics to predict when equipment may fail.

· Develop a paper based preventative maintenance system to include showing how it can be implemented.

· Review results of a survey on preventative maintenance activities.

· Construct a detailed preventative maintenance schedule that will highlight work to be done (what), by whom (who, and the frequency (when).

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