Reliability & Maintenance
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) for Plant Teams
A workshop-driven RCM programme where teams rebuild the maintenance strategy for their own critical equipment using real failure history.
Industry focus: Plant Maintenance, Reliability & Inspection
Who Should Attend
Designed for these roles
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Plant managers
- Planners and supervisors
Delivery formats
- Customised in-house training at your plant or office
- Public classroom delivery, subject to schedule
- Live online delivery where suitable
- Recommended group size: 8–20 participants
Problems Solved
What this course fixes
Preventive tasks performed because they always have been, not because they prevent anything
Repeat failures on the same equipment every year
Maintenance budget rising while availability falls
Learning Outcomes
What participants can do after the programme
Outcomes are written as tasks, not topics — so managers can verify capability back at work.
- Rank equipment criticality with a defensible method
- Build FMEA-based task selection for critical assets
- Replace low-value PM tasks with condition-based monitoring
- Present a maintenance strategy change with cost justification
Course Outline
Detailed programme content
Day 1 — Foundations
- Failure patterns, P-F interval and the real meaning of preventive maintenance
- Criticality assessment methods
- Data quality: what your CMMS is actually telling you
Day 2 — Analysis
- FMEA on participants' own equipment
- Task selection logic and interval setting
- Condition monitoring technologies and where they pay back
Day 3 — Implementation
- Turning analysis into CMMS task lists
- Spare parts and criticality alignment
- Business case presentation to management
Practical Work
Practical exercises and case studies
Sessions are built around calculations, data interpretation and technical decisions. Case material is generic or anonymised — no client-confidential project data is used.
Criticality assessment exercise on a representative equipment list
Failure mode and effects analysis on a pump or fan system, taken to task selection
Task interval reasoning using failure history and condition monitoring capability
Case discussion: converting a bloated PM programme into a defensible task list
Trainer Profile
Delivered by Sathish Kumar
Senior Trainer — Reliability, Maintenance & Rotating Equipment
19 years industry experience
Sathish builds maintenance strategies that survive contact with a real budget. His workshops use participants' own failure history, so teams leave with a revised task list rather than a certificate alone.
Real project exposure
- RCM implementation across critical pumps and compressors at a combined-cycle power plant
- Root cause failure analysis on repeat bearing failures in a boiler feed pump train
- Spare parts and criticality review for a palm oil refinery group
Certifications
- CMRP — Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional
- Vibration Analyst Category III (ISO 18436-2)
- RCM2 Practitioner
Trainer allocation is confirmed in your proposal. Substitute trainers hold equivalent certification and sector experience.
Next Step
Run this programme for your team
We will confirm available dates, trainer, duration and HRD Corp claimable investment — and adjust the outline to your equipment and standards at no extra cost.
No obligation. Proposals include HRD Corp claim guidance.
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