It's often said that the lubricant is the lifeblood of the machine - and it is. A lot of attention is paid to the process of selecting the proper lubricant, but sadly, the processes by which lubrication maintenance activities are executed and managed in the plant are largely overlooked. This course provides maintenance and reliability engineers and managers with the knowledge they need to achieve excellence in machinery lubrication.

1. The course targets managers and supervisors who don?t require technical expertise in lubrication, but need enough info to plan, organize, staff and support the effort with guidance and resources.
2. Packed with case studies and provides the student with a general introduction to machinery lubrication & oil analysis.
3. It emphasizes the economic benefits of updating and revising old lubrication practices, and organizing for the future.
4. It also emphasizes on the economic benefits associated with employing oil analysis for machine condition monitoring.
5. Managers who receive this overview training often seek more detailed training once they understand the true benefits of a well-designed and implemented oil analysis program and their new understanding of the connection between machinery lubrication, equipment uptime and profitability.
6. Who should attend:
   1. Maintenance & Engineering Managers
   2. HR and Finance officers
   3. Reliability engineers
   4. Senior plant management
7. 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 Reliable Plant magazine
   5. Credit voucher worth $???; applicable to future public courses or onsite trainings
8. Outline: Balancing the technical, business process and organizational aspects of machinery lubrication management, this course addresses all the elements of machinery lubrication:
   1. Introduction to fundamentals
   2. Role of lubrication and oil analysis in machine reliability
   3. How OEE can be improved using lubrication best practices
   4. Why your oil analysis program is as limited/useless as the way you take your oil samples
   5. Lube storage, handling & application best practices
   6. How to extend the life of your machine components
   7. Building a skilled & motivated lube team
9. 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

Proactive Maintenance & Reliability, the New Profit Center (PMRC)

1. Role of lubrication and oil analysis in machine reliability
   1. Financial benefits from achieving lubrication excellence
   2. Five (5) equipment maintenance strategies and when each applies
   3. Important implementation steps to lubrication excellence
   4. 10 roadblocks to achieving lubrication excellence
   5. Increasing OEE thru lubrication best practices
2. Why your oil analysis program is as limited/useless as the way you take your oil samples
   1. How to turn this report 10x more valuable to the company
   2. Oil analysis as a tool for program feedback and monitoring
3. Lube storage, handling & application best practices
   1. How to extend the life of your lubricant
   2. Common mistakes carried out worldwide
4. How to extend the life of your machine components
   1. Optimize operators? contribution to equipment maintenance
   2. Intro to contamination control, monitoring & analysis
   3. Financial analysis of Industry Case studies showing incredible NPV, IRR figures
   4. How contamination can greatly reduce profitability
5. Building a skilled & motivated lube team
   1. How to transform your maintenance culture
   2. Examples of a lubrication dept organization chart
   3. Hidden cost of uneducated workforce
6. 1.Simple Proven Steps to achieving lubrication excellence
   1. Set of goals and limits
   2. Take action and steps to achieve goals
   3. Metrics and performance tracking for feedback
   4. Strategic Plant Reliability Management notes:
   1. MBA meets Plant Reliability Engineering
   2. How to approach reliability as a collaborative process between management, design, procurement, operations and maintenance
   3. How to instill performance metrics that are proactive and reliability focused
   4. How reliability engineering data analysis will enable you to make more effective decisions and manage risk
   5. How and why failure modes effects analysis is a cornerstone of managing plant reliability ? from design to operations to maintenance
   6. How root cause analysis can get you out of the cycle of recurring failures caused by doing the same thing but expecting different results
   7. How mistakes in design significantly influence productivity and life cycle cost of ownership and how to begin to correct your deficiencies
   8. The role lean operations play in achieving gains in equipment effectiveness
   9. The importance of a maintenance program that truly prevents failures and enables your organization to respond to problems better
   10. Outline:
   1. Introduction
   2. Business of plant reliability management
   3. Reliability engineering toolkit
   4. Design for reliability
   5. Operate for reliability
   6. Maintain for reliability
   7. Quantifying Benefits and Performance Metrics
   8. Devising & implementing an effective plant reliability management strategy
   1. Optional SMRP exam the day after
   2. Optional Opportunity-Spotting Assessment and Planning
      Support Session (day after the seminar)
   1. Onsite audit & consulting (LPD phase 1) by Noria?s SVP
   2. Consultant-facilitated Q&A session with key management team members to perform a summary evaluation of your organization on the 12 key dimensional elements of plant reliability management
   3. Creation of a global estimate of the opportunity, which employs a systematic process using hard data wherever possible
   4. A follow-up visit to your plant or office, or a conference call to determine next steps for creating your vision and strategic plan
   5. Rate: 195,000 per project day