Begin your journey towards effective reliability and maintenance.
We offer this training course as an introduction to Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Preventive Maintenance Optimisation (PMO) techniques for personnel who are expected to contribute to equipment maintenance strategy development activities. Participants will gain an understanding of:
- The key concepts and principles underlying RCM and PMO
- The skills required to participate in structured equipment strategy development workshops using both RCM and PMO processes
Effective application of these techniques will generate a more effective Preventive Maintenance (PM) program that can result in improvements to:
- Overall equipment effectiveness,
- Equipment availability,
- Equipment reliability,
- Cost performance,
- Labour productivity, and
- Safety and environmental performance.
Key outcomes
By the end of this course, you will (at a minimum) be able to:
- Describe the benefits that can be gained through an effective preventive maintenance program.
- Describe the principles of both Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Preventive Maintenance Optimisation (PMO).
- Identify the steps involved in developing an equipment strategy.
- Contribute to each step, particularly:
- Applying RCM or PMO techniques as appropriate to the equipment,
- Identifying equipment functions and failure modes,
- Selecting recommended maintenance tasks, and
- Identifying additional improvement tasks.
Course outline
- The origins of most existing PM programs
- The likely possible improvements within your current maintenance program
- Origins of FMEA, RCM and PMO
- Underlying principles of equipment strategy development
- How to select equipment for analysis
- Documenting the scope
- Identifying functions
- Functional Performance Standards
- Detailing performance requirements
- Identifying design capability
- Identifying and assessing gaps
- What is a failure mode?
- The RCM approach to identifying failure modes
- Exercise: Identifying Failure Modes using the RCM approach
- The PMO approach to identifying failure modes
- Exercise: Identifying Failure Modes using the PMO approach
- Case Study: Applying Steps 3-4
- Describing failure effects and Consequences
- Hidden Failures
- Safety/Environmental
- Operational Consequences
- Non-Operational Consequences
- Exercise: Classifying Consequences
- Assessing task effectiveness
- Types of consequences
- Assessing task applicability
- Case Study: Applying Steps 5-6
- Types of one-time changes
- Equipment modifications
- Operating practices
- Repair techniques
- Maintenance error management
- Identifying windows of opportunity
- Reviewing shortest interval shutdown tasks
- Identifying & resolving constraints
- Packaging & sequencing tasks
- Estimating labour & downtime
- Levelling workloads
- Case Study: Applying Steps 7-8
- Approving implementation
- Managing review quality
- Implementing process outcomes
- Measuring achievement
- Continuous improvement
brisbane
28 Oct 2025 - 29 Oct 2025
perth
18 Nov 2025 - 19 Nov 2025
RCM & PMO for Team Members
- Brisbane, Perth
- From $1935.00 excl. GST
- Face to face duration: 16 hours
