PRECISION MAINTENANCE
SCHOOL

Take dead aim at the FLAB (Fasteners, Lubrication, Alignment and Balance) in your plant and significantly improve equipment reliability and plant processes.

EVERYTHING YOU

NEED TO KNOW


1. THE BUSINESS CASE FOR FLAB MANAGEMENT

  • Macro and microeconomic benefits for your organization
  • Your journey to world-class, proactive maintenance

    • 2. TAKING A MICROSCOPE LOOK AT FLAB FUNDAMENTALS – AN INTRODUCTION

  • Fastening to reduce mechanical vibration
  • Lubrication to cushion the effects of mechanical vibration
  • Alignment to reduce mechanical vibration
  • Balance to reduce mechanical vibration
  • How managing FLAB to reduce vibration and improve lubrication extends machine life
  • Electrical applications of FLAB management

    • 3. THE PHYSICS OF MACHINE FAILURE

  • Failure mechanisms connect failure modes to failure causes
  • Right design and operation to manage stress-strength interference
  • Understanding mechanical failure modes and mechanisms
  • Understanding electrical failure modes and mechanisms

    • 4. MODERN, MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING – A MUST FOR FLAB MANAGEMENT

  • Proactive versus predictive condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance
  • Vibration analysis fundamentals
  • Lubricant analysis fundamentals
  • Thermographic analysis fundamentals
  • Ultrasonic acoustic emissions fundamentals
  • Motor evaluation fundamentals
  • Non-destructive testing techniques
  • The “eyeometer” – visual and sensory inspections should create your foundation
  • Designing a machine condition monitoring program
  • The P-F interval for determining how and how often to monitor machine health
  • How condition monitoring drives down maintenance costs
  • How condition monitoring drives down maintenance inventories

    • 5. RELIABILITY ENGINEERING METHODS FOR FLAB MANAGEMENT

  • The basics of reliability engineering
  • How to manage risk over the life cycle of equipment assets

    • 6. FASTENERS

  • Bolting theory – how fasteners really work to hold machines to together
  • The difference between tension and torque
  • How much tension? – Hooke’s Law
  • How friction and lubrication influence torque and tension
  • Proper bolting sequence
  • Bolt basics – grades, standards and strength
  • Wrong and right choices for washers
  • Torque wrenches – 101

    • 7. LUBRICATION

  • Lubrication basics – the many roles of a lubricant
  • Lubrication basics – the anatomy of a lubricant – it’s a bundle of performance properties
  • How a lubricant protects the machine under full film, mixed film and boundary contact conditions
  • Extending machine life with contamination control
  • Machine set-up for lubrication maintainability
  • Grease – not too much, not too little, but just right and just at the right time!
  • Precision greasing with ultrasonic tools

    • 8. ALIGNMENT

  • The consequences of angular and offset misalignment
  • How misalignment influences bearing life
  • How misalignment influences coupling life
  • How to detect misalignment with vibration analysis
  • Laser alignment
  • Managing pipe strain with alignment

    • 9. BALANCE

  • The basics of balancing
  • Causes of imbalance
  • How imbalance induced relative centrifugal force (RCF) robs your machines of life
  • Balancing standards – ISO and API
  • Single plane field balancing

    • Maintenance Planner/Scheduler, Area Planner, Maintenance Coordinator, Maintenance Supervisor, Work Management Planner, Maintenance Engineer

    Drew Troyer is a reliability engineer and globally recognized thought leader in the area of asset management with 30 years of experience in the field. An award-winning author, he has written more than 300 books, articles and technical papers on the subject and is a regularly featured keynote speaker at events around the world. As a workshop leader, he’s taught thousands of students on various aspects of reliability engineering and the business of equipment asset management.

    For more info about content, schedule, pricing or onsite training, please contact:

    Claire Sauerman:

    M: 0400 553 600

    claire.sauerman@theeventfulgroup.com

    Lisa Irving:

    M: 0411 883 266

    lisa.irving@theeventfulgroup.com

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