1. You will learn:
   1. How to identify gaps in your organization's maintenance activities
   2. New and practical ways in addressing contamination and spare parts replacement
   3. Tips on communicating in the language your non-technical managers would understand
2. Who should attend:
   1. All Maintenance Professionals
   2. Maintenance & Engineering Managers
   3. Maintenance coordinators & engineers
   4. Reliability engineers
   5. Plant/Chief Chemists
   6. Lubrication & Maintenance Technicians
3. What is included:
   1. Course book that corresponds to instructor's power point presentation
   2. Interactive session with film showing
   3. Lunch and coffee breaks during the day
   4. One (1) issue of Machinery Lubrication magazine
   5. Credit voucher worth $179; applicable to future public courses or onsite trainings
4. Outline:
   1. How lubrication affects machine reliability
   2. Assessing the challenge thru Benchmarking
   3. Building a business case for lubrication excellence
   4. Procurement practices on new lubricants
   5. Storage and Handling practices
   6. Common sampling errors and its effect on lubricant analysis
   7. Contamination exclusion and removal methods
   8. Lubrication and Relubrication practices
   9. Safety practices and Procedural development
   10. Continuous improvement of Program goals/metrics
5. This course may be taught in combination with other CRE courses during the same week, or in conjunction with consulting services to minimize travel and living expenses

Outline of Effective Lubrication Program Management (ELPM):

1. How lubrication affects machine reliability
   1. Financial Benefits from achieving lubrication excellence
   2. Five equipment maintenance strategies, and when each applies
   3. Important implementation steps to lubrication excellence
   4. 10 roadblocks to achieving lube excellence
2. Assessing the challenge thru Benchmarking
   1. Scorecard via spider diagram
   2. Highlight existing practices (where we are now)
   3. Talk about best practices (where we should be)
   4. Identify gaps, (how do we get there)
3. Building a business case for lubrication excellence
   1. Constructing a cost benefit analysis
   2. Speaking the language of your financial guys
4. Procurement practices on new lubricants
   1. Consolidating products and increasing your purchasing power
5. Storage and Handling practices
   1. Best practices versus malpractices
   2. a.Inventory, lube room management
6. Common sampling errors and its effect on lubricant analysis
   1. Dos and Don'ts on sampling; garbage in equals garbage out
   2. Sampling procedures and locations
   3. Test slates, which one is routine and which is exception
7. Contamination exclusion and removal methods
   1. Cost 10x more to remove something from the inside than to prevent it from entering
   2. All types of contamination and their impact on equipments
8. Lubrication and Relubrication practices
   1. Putting the right type, at the right amount, at the right interval with the right procedure
   2. Technologies available to ensure best practices are observed
9. Safety practices and Procedural development
   1. Leakage recognition, control program
   2. Draining, flushing, refilling procedures
   3. How to document a procedure
10. Continuous improvement of Program goals/metrics
    1. Lubrication Key Performance Indicators
    2. Measuring Lubrication success!