An Introduction to Maintenance

Engineering and Asset

Management
A three-day intensive course

An Introduction to Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management

This three day course on Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management is generic in nature and
is applicable to all kinds of industries. The course covers the basics of the following; Maintenance
strategy and systems, Maintenance organisation, Turnaround Management, Audit maintenance,
Reliability and Vibration Based Condition Monitoring of plant. All these are supported by case
studies and will be covered from a management perspective throughout the course.

The University of Manchester

Date: 1 - 3 May 2012

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An introduction to
Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management
Background to the course
Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management is a critical field of managerial and technical importance to UK and international industry. It is estimated that 10% of typical plant cost is spent
every year maintaining that plant. Maintenance can make the difference in competitiveness on a
global scale. Maintenance managers can make major impacts on their companies bottom line, and
often report at board level.
This course will cover a basic introduction to Maintenance and Asset Management organised by
the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at The University of Manchester

Who is the course for?

The course content is generic in nature and so is applicable to all kind of Industries, e.g., Oil and
Gas, Nuclear, Railways, Chemical, Food processing, Energy and Power generation and manufacturing industries. This course will appeal to practising engineers, new graduate engineers and experienced managers, who are responsible for the maintenance of plant and equipment in their
organisation and need updating in the latest developments in this area.

The Course
The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering based in the University of Manchester
is one of the UKs leading institutions in the engineering field. The School has extensive teaching
and research facilities and contracts with major industries operating throughout the world. The
School is establishing a reputation as a provider of short updating courses for engineers that will
support staff through their working lives with the latest research and business practice. All the
speakers are consultants and managers from major UK organizations and leaders in their field.

The Venue
The course takes place in Central Manchester and delegates will be based on-campus for the
three days in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering on our Sackville Street
campus.

To register, phone Amanda Clare on 0161 275 4323

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Course programme
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Day 1

Developing a Strategy& Ensuring its Effectiveness

08:158.45

Course Registration and coffee

8.4509.00

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Jyoti Sinha

9.0010.30

Financial Impact of maintenance and how it can provide a competitive advantage.

Mr Paul Wheelhouse

10.3010.45

Morning Break

10.4512.30

Strategy Review Processtaking account of business needs, legislation, current performance and best practice.

12.3013.30

Lunch

13.3015.15

Maintenance OrganisationStructuring Resources to ensure costeffective maintenance.

15.1515.30

Afternoon Break

15.3017.00

Auditing maintenanceAs part of the continuous improvement

process.

Speaker

Mr Paul Wheelhouse

Mr Paul Wheelhouse

Mr Paul Wheelhouse

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Day 2

Maintenance Systems

Speaker

09.0010.30

Introduction to Maintenance Systems

Mr Tom Lenahan

10.3010.45

Morning Break

10.4512.30

Turnaround Management

12.3013.30

Lunch

13.3015.15

Learning from Failures

Case Studies of famous disasters to illustrate reliability modelling
and the process of feedback from maintenance to design in an
attempt to learn from failures.

15.15-15.30

Afternoon break

15.3017.00

Information Systems and Design related policies in maintenance.

Exploring the different aspects of maintenance policies and how
to select an appropriate policy, including design out, based on
the relative performance of Assets.

The University of Manchester

Mr Tom Lenahan

Prof. Ashraf Labib

Prof Ashraf Labib

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Thursday 3 May 2012

Day 3

Reliability Engineering in a Maintenance Context

09.00 10.30

Setting the Scene: defining reliability, simple statistics of item failure, data
needs, implications for maintenance policy

10.3010.45

Morning break

10.4512.30

12.3013.30

13.3015.15

Analysing the reliability of plant items: videoWeibull analysis with simple illustrative case studies. Assessing the reliability of basic systems:
series and parallel configuration, outline of Failure Modes and effects
Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis. Each delegate will also receive a DVD
containing three videos of the above material.

Mr M. J. Harris

Mr M.J. Harris

Lunch
Vibration based Condition Monitoring.
Basic principle of Vibration, Amplitude of Vibration, Basic instrumentations and data Acquisition, concept of Spectrum, FRF Analysis.

15.1515.30

Afternoon break

15.3017.00

Development of a conditioning monitoring system for a rotating machine. Selection of transducers, measurement location, ISO code, Frequency range of measurement. Feature for fault detection and case studies.

17.0017.30

Feedback and plenary session

Dr. J. K. Sinha

Dr. J K. Sinha

Dr Jyoti Sinha (Course Leader)

BSc (Chemistry Hons.), BSc (Mech.), Mtech(Aero), PhD (Rotor dynamics)
Lecturer and Course Director, M.Sc. Maintenance Engineering and Assets Management (MEAM) course
The University of Manchester
Dr. Jyoti K. Sinha took up the present post in January 2007. He previously worked as a Senior Research Scientist in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India for nearly 16 years. He also worked as a Research Fellow
in Cranfield University, UK for 18 months. He received his Bachelors degree (Mech. Eng.) from BIT, Sindri
(India), Masters degree (Aerospace Eng.) from IIT Bombay, Mumbai (India). He completed his Ph.D. from the
University of Wales Swansea (UK).
His research area is Vibration and Structural Dynamics using both experiments and analytical methods including FE model updating, Vibration control, and Health Monitoring techniques. He is recipient of the prestigious
Young Scientist (Boyscast) Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, India for his outstanding work in Vibration diagnosis and Structural Dynamics related to number of rotating machines and
structural components of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). Dr. Sinha has been extensively involved in the number of projects related to Vibration and Dynamics and instrumental in developing number of innovative techniques in his research area. He is the author of more than 60 technical reports and 85 technical papers in the
International Journals and Conferences (Journal-54nos, Conference-29 nos., Invited talk-2nos.). Dr. Sinha is
also Associate Editor of two International Journals.
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jyoti.sinha/

To register, phone Amanda Clare on 0161 275 4323

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Course Presenters

Tom Lenahan (TLL Limited)

Since 1996 Tom Lenahan has worked as an independent consultant assisting clients achieve cost effective
solutions to difficult issues in maintenance strategy in general and turnaround management in particular.
Tom has been involved in all aspects of maintenance and built up extensive experience working for companies in the UK, USA, India, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa and the Middle East. He has been trained in advanced communication skills and has extensive experience in dealing with 'soft' people issues that are as
vital to the success of maintenance strategies as the more traditional technical issues. This has made him
expert in the role of facilitation. Tom's first book on turnaround management was published in August 1999
and he is at present engaged on developing a 'stripped down' turnaround methodology for companies with
limited resources.

John Harris (Visiting Lecturer, The University of Manchester)

Following experience in research engineering in the early UK nuclear power programme, lectured in the
School of Engineering at Manchester University where, after work in nuclear reactor physics and heat transfer he developed research interests in safety and reliability engineering and in maintenance. He co-authored,
with Tony Kelly, the pioneering textbook Management of Industrial Maintenance, and edits the journal
Maintenance & Asset Management. His research publications have dealt with topics as diverse as reactor
neutronics and heat transfer, nuclear plant containment, the maintenance of hazardous plant and the monitoring of reliability. A founder member and sometime Chairman of the erstwhile Reliability Committee of
the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers, he contributed substantially to its handbook (published in the
Institution's Series of Guides for the Process Industries).

Paul Wheelhouse (Red Wheel Solutions Ltd)

Paul Wheelhouse is a chartered electrical engineer a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology
and a former council member of the Institute of Asset Management. After studying pure and applied physics
at The University of Manchester he worked in the speciality chemicals business for 20 years in a variety of
engineering, production and distribution roles at several locations in Europe. A large part of his time was
devoted to improving the performance of plant, work processes and the functioning of groups. For the past
fifteen years Paul has been engaged in asset management consulting. This has involved helping clients to
enhance the return on assets by improved equipment reliability, reduced working capital and the more
effective use of labour. His recent assignments have crossed a wide range of industries in Europe, Middle
East, North America and the Far East. Paul is currently a Director with Red Wheel Solutions Ltd. which
specialises in all aspects of maintenance consultancy, training and performance improvement. He divides his
time between business development, teaching and consulting.

Prof. Ashraf Labib

Prof. Ashraf is the Associate Dean for Research at Portsmouth Business School (PBS). His main research
interest lies in the field of Maintenance Systems, Operational Research and Decision Analysis. Prior to joining Portsmouth Business School, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Manufacturing Division of the Department
of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of
Science and Technology). He holds a PhD and MSc from Univ. of Birmingham, an MBA from the American
University in Cairo, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Univ. of Cairo. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (ORS), a Fellow of the IEE and a Chartered Engineer. He has published over 100refereed papers in professional journals and international conferences proceedings. He received the 1999,
2000, and 2008 Highly Commended awards for three published papers from the Literati Club, MCB Press
(a publisher of 140 journals). He is currently the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions SMC (Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics). He has been active in attracting research-funded projects from EPSRC, ESRC, European
Commission and industry. He has been involved in teaching modules to various industries such as HP, Intel,
Qatar Gas, QP, ARAMCO, SABIC, and PDO. He has also been involved through collaboration and consultancy on Maintenance Best Practice with companies including; Rolls Royce (Aero engines), the Royal Mail;
Rockwell, Meritor Light Vehicle Systems, and Proctor and Gamble.

To register, phone Amanda Clare on 0161 275 4323

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Organisational details

Date / Duration

Three days inclusive Spring, 13 May 2012

Location
The course will be held in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering on the Sackville Street campus in Manchester.
The University is close to the city centre (a five minute walk). Manchester Piccadilly railway station and the central Chorlton
Street bus station are also within walking distance.

Delegate Fee
The course fee for the three days including lunches is 895 plus VAT (where applicable).

Cancellation of payments
Up to three weeks before the event: free of charge; up to one week before; 50%. Non-attendance will not receive a refund. Cancellation must be in writing to the Course Administrator in advance.

Cancellation by the University

The University reserves the right to cancel the course 10 days before if there are not sufficient delegates registered.

Food
Lunches will be provided each day with breaks for tea and coffee held in the morning and afternoon.

Accommodation
Delegates are asked to make their own arrangements for overnight accommodation. There are a number of hotels close to the University in central Manchester. Please contact the Course Administrator for further details and there is information on our website.

The Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management MSc Course

The Masters Degree course that the School of Engineering offer that is available as Part-time and Distance learning formats.
For further details of this course please see the Postgraduate section of our website at;

http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/maintenance/index.html

In and around Manchester

The University of Manchester

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