Reliability & Maintenance
Root Cause Failure Analysis for Rotating & Static Equipment
Structured failure investigation using participants' own breakdown history, ending with corrective actions that actually close out.
Industry focus: Plant Maintenance, Reliability & Inspection
Who Should Attend
Designed for these roles
- Maintenance engineers and technicians
- Reliability engineers
- Operations 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
Investigations that stop at 'operator error' or 'bearing failure'
Corrective actions raised but never verified
The same failure repeating across sister equipment
Learning Outcomes
What participants can do after the programme
Outcomes are written as tasks, not topics — so managers can verify capability back at work.
- Preserve and interpret failure evidence correctly
- Apply logic tree analysis to physical, human and latent causes
- Read bearing, seal and gear failure signatures
- Write corrective actions that can be tracked and verified
Course Outline
Detailed programme content
Day 1 — Method & Evidence
- Evidence preservation at the failure site
- Logic tree construction and hypothesis testing
- Failure signature interpretation: bearings, seals, couplings, gears
Day 2 — Application
- Live RCFA on a participant case
- Latent and systemic causes: procedures, spares, competency
- Corrective action tracking and effectiveness review
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.
Evidence handling and timeline construction from an incident data pack
Logic tree building and hypothesis testing on a rotating equipment failure
Failure signature interpretation from photographs of bearings, seals and gears
Writing corrective actions with owners, verification and effectiveness review
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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