• Confidently propose and cost-justify new reliability initiatives
• Break down silo thinking and champion reliability vision alignment at all levels
• Clearly link plant reliability to overall company performance
• Quantify the benefits of reliability investments
• Stop reliability budgets from getting slashed
• Help management understand the impact of plant reliability on share price

Course Outline - Day 1

• How to find profits in the ?Commodity Sandwich? and the hidden plant
• How to beat your competitors and satisfy your customers by improving reliability
• How to quantify the benefits of plant reliability
• Creating proposals for reliability initiatives: what works
• Reliability in the economic value added equation and why the Lean Asset Manager always wins
• The critical connection between lean manufacturing and plant reliability
• How the perception of risk drives reliability investments
• How to align operations, maintenance and design to the same vision for plant reliability
• The strategic and functional domains of plant reliability management
• Why you can?t just buy reliability and how to reengineer your business processes

• Why preventive maintenance is not necessarily proactive
• How to build on the foundation of reliability engineering
• How to use weibull distribution to uncover time dependencies in failure rate
• Foundational strategies for increasing reliability
• Six controllable operational and environmental elements that help extend service oil life
• How to build your standardized taxonomy of failure modes
• Understanding root cause analysis - a proven improvement tool
• How to conduct RCA and the seven best identification categories
• How to evaluate time to failure - mode by mode
• How to guard against "corporate amnesia" with procedure-based manufacturing
• How plant operating and maintenance procedures drive consistency, continuity and skills management for best practice
• 7 enablers to make "people + systems = success" work
• Three project evaluation methods: when and hw to use them
• How to connect skills management to procedures
• Ammunition for getting workforce training proposals accepted
• Unbiased group decision making - it's easier than you think
• Plant reliability management case studies