Asset Reliability Practitioner – Engineer (ARP-E)

Introduction

The Asset Reliability Practitioner [ARP-E] – Reliability Engineer course is designed for professionals who aspire to become competent and confident reliability engineers — capable of applying advanced methods and tools to improve equipment performance, optimize maintenance costs, and extend asset life.

A reliability engineer must be highly versatile, with a broad understanding of multiple technical disciplines and the ability to apply them effectively in real-world environments.
This course provides a comprehensive foundation of knowledge and practical skills to prepare you for success in this critical role.

Who should attend
  • Maintenance, reliability, or production engineers
  • TPM or CI specialists and reliability program implementers
  • Technical managers aiming to improve system performance
Benefits
  • Master proactive maintenance strategies
  • Apply RCA and FMEA methodologies
  • Integrate condition monitoring technologies
  • Measure performance using KPIs
Course Outline

TOPICS COVERED

Introduction

  • The reliability engineer and the reliability program leader
  • Overview of the Asset Reliability Transformation® process
  • The benefits of reliability
  • How does reliability improvement compare to other programs?

Culture Change

  • Culture change and you
  • Getting suggestions
  • The brown-paper process
  • Motivation

Training and Skills Assessment

  • Why do people need to be trained?
  • Skills assessment
  • Training and certification

Risks and Consequences

  • Assessing the risks
  • Developing the consequence ranking system

Likelihood and Detectability

  • How likely is failure?
  • Will we see the failure coming?

Reliability Data Analysis

  • The importance and value of data
  • The foundation of reliability engineering
  • Statistical techniques
  • Data and Weibull distribution
  • Duane model and Crow-AMSSA
  • Reliability block diagrams (RBDs)
  • Using reliability data for decision making
  • Data quality

Asset Criticality Ranking

  • How should the asset criticality ranking be defined?
  • Asset criticality ranking step by step

Pareto Analysis

  • What is Pareto analysis?
  • Pareto analysis example

Defect Elimination

  • What is defect elimination?
  • Defect elimination strategy

Minimize Life Cycle Cost

  • Life cycle cost minimization
  • Design for reliability
  • Value-driven procurement
  • Acceptance testing

Operations and Reliability

  • Operator-driven reliability (ODR)
  • Standard operating procedures (SOP)
  • Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

Asset Strategy Development

  • What is an asset strategy?
  • How to develop an asset strategy
  • Typical outcomes of an asset strategy

Master Asset List and Bill of Materials

  • How to develop an accurate Master Asset List (MAL)
  • How to create a Bill Of Materials (BOM)
  • Change management

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

  • What is FTA?
  • The steps of FTA
  • Example of FTA

Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

  • What is FMECA?
  • The steps of FMECA
  • Example of FMECA

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

  • What is RCM?
  • The steps of RCM
  • Example of RCM

Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)

  • What is PMO?
  • Prerequisites for performing PMO
  • Getting started

Root Cause (Failure) Analysis (RCA)

  • Why and when to perform RCA?
  • People and RCA
  • RCA techniques
  • Condition Monitoring data and RCA

 

Work Management

  • Goals of work management
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Work management flow
  • Job scheduling and execution
  • Closeout and feedback

Spares and Material Management

  • The importance of spares management
  • Spares database
  • The selection process and purchasing requirements
  • Caring for spares
  • The storeroom

Precision Lubrication and Contamination Control

  • The importance of lubrication
  • How lubrication works
  • Contamination
  • Filtration
  • Storage and dispensing

Precision Shaft Alignment

  • Introduction to shaft alignment
  • What is misalignment?
  • Types of misalignment
  • Determine the alignment state

Rotor Balancing

  • What is unbalance?
  • Causes of unbalance
  • Diagnosing unbalance
  • Why balance?
  • Balancing the rotor

Mechanical and Electrical Fastening

  • Precision fastening
  • Bolt torquing (tensioning)
  • Electrical connections
  • 5S and the visual workplace
  • 5S: Lean: Six Sigma Reliability improvement

Vibration Analysis

  • Introduction to vibration analysis
  • Vibration sensors
  • Overall level readings
  • Vibration spectra, time waveform, and phase analysis
  • Rolling element bearing fault detection
  • Fluid-film bearing and rotor fault detection
  • The future of vibration analysis
  • Case studies

Ultrasound

  • Introduction to ultrasound
  • Mechanical and electrical applications

Oil Analysis

  • New and used oil analysis
  • Analysis technologies
  • Measuring and reporting oil cleanliness
  • Wear particle analysis

Infrared Thermography

  • Introduction to infrared analysis
  • Mechanical and electrical applications

Inspections Performance and NDT

  • Visual inspections
  • Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods

Electrical Equipment

  • Power quality
  • Electrical testing
  • Partial discharge
  • Induction motor testing
  • Motor current signature analysis (MCSA)
  • Electrical signature analysis (ESA)
  • Motor circuit analysis (MCA)

The Future of Condition Monitoring

  • Technologies and analytics in the future

Breaking Out of Reactive Maintenance

  • How to break out of the reactive maintenance cycle of doom

Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)

  • Key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Maintenance metrics
  • CM and reliability performance
  • Review program strategy

 

 

 

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  • Duration
    5 days
  • Format
    Online / In-house / Public
  • Prerequisite
    None ( Who should attend?)
  • Certificate
    Issued by Mobius Institute, ISO 18436-2 & ISO 17024 accredited. Globally recognized.