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Course Description

The Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) program is the leading credential for certifying the knowledge, skills and abilities of maintenance, reliability, and physical asset management professionals. The comprehensive program is designed to benefit both new professionals and experienced professionals who wish to write the CMRP certification exam with a unique skill set by going beyond textbook knowledge and testing real-world experiences and abilities.

This course will enable participants to develop a strategy for outstanding maintenance and reliability performance, tools to improve reliability at equipment level, and an insight to the latest practices in planning, scheduling and control. It is a highly interactive course with many discussions, group activities and case studies.

Course Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:

  • Understand the model of excellence for maintenance and how to use this to improve company profitability
  • Develop effective methodologies to improve manufacturing process reliability
  • Describe the key aspects of improving reliability at equipment level
  • Perform the critical steps in the identification of necessary maintenance work
  • Utilize leadership skills to achieve maintenance and reliability excellence
  • Demonstrate best practice in work management, including the principles of managing work flow, planning and scheduling, and shutdown management

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for maintenance managers and reliability professionals.  Experienced supervisors, planners, project engineers, operations managers, functional specialists, and those seeking to achieve the CMRP designation will also benefit from this course.

Course Agenda

Day 1:

Registration

Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Introduction to the Model of Excellence

  • How Maintenance Has Evolved
  • Sources of Best Practice and Benchmarking Options
  • The Pitfalls of Traditional Maintenance Practices
  • Understanding Where Money Should Be Invested and Where Money Tends To Be Wasted
  • The Relationship Between Fixed Costs And Maintenance Performance
  • The Modern Maintenance Strategy and Asset Management
  • Optimizing The Workflow Process and CMMS System Performance
  • Identifying The Correct Scope Of Work
  • Approval And Prioritization Of Work
  • Planning And Work Pack Development For Maximum Efficiency
  • Scheduling Work to Meet Targets And Match Resource Plans
  • On Time In Full Work Execution
  • Recording Work Done, Learning and Improving Future Work

Day 2:

Aligning Maintenance with the Business plan and Managing for Performance

  • How to align maintenance with the unique requirements of any business
  • Developing a maintenance vision and a credible plan for delivering this
  • Launching and managing the Maintenance Improvement plan
  • Selecting and tracking Key Performance Indicators to track progress towards the vision
  • An overview of change management
  • Health, safety and environmental considerations

Work Management (Major Activities and Supporting Services)

  • Planning and executing projects
  • Managing maintenance materials and stores
  • Use of computer-based technology
  • An introduction to major maintenance tasks, shutdowns and turnarounds

Day 3:

  • Understanding the relevant management processes for any asset and operation
    • Reliability Centered Maintenance
    • Lean and six-sigma
    • Total Productive Maintenance
    • The ideal reliability road map
    • Improving process performance
      • Cost, risk and value engineering
      • The principles of cost-effective maintenance investment
      • Management processes
      • Reliability improvement methodologies
    • Change Management for key processes
    • Auditing and assurance processes for compliance with reliability processes
    • Conforming with local legislation and relevant standards

    Day 4:

    Improving Reliability at Equipment Level

    • Setting reliability targets at equipment level
    • Assessing and base lining present equipment performance
    • Analysis options to understand the underlying causes of inadequate equipment performance
      • Root Cause Failure Analysis
      • Weibull analysis
      • Criticality analysis
      • Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis
    • Development of effective maintenance plans
      • Reactive
      • Preventive
      • Predictive
      • Proactive
    • Condition monitoring options for different equipment and failure modes
    •  A process to ensure new equipment reliability is at the required level
    • Implementation of reliability plans for all equipment

    Day 5:

    Developing a High-Performance Team

    • Developing an organization that will support the reliability and maintenance strategies
    • Setting a reliability focused culture
    • The roles of personnel outside maintenance in reliability improvement and how to engage the right people in the right way
    • Assessing gaps in the organization skills and the current capability VS that required
    • Competency management (training and developing personnel).
    • Leadership skills required to deliver full organizational performance
    • Setting a reliability focused culture
    • The roles of personnel outside maintenance in reliability improvement and how to engage the right people in the right way

    Post-Test & End of the Course

    Assessment Methodology

    All courses conducted by EdTech are begun with a written Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This proactive method will help to recognize the benefits and knowledge gained by participants through the course.

    Training Methodology

    Facilitated by a highly experienced specialist; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage. Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

    • 30% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and Role Play
    • 30% Work Presentation and Techniques
    • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
    • 20% Topic General Discussions with Relevant Videos.

    Course Manual

    ​Participants will be provided with a comprehensive reference manual. This manual is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading materials.

    Course Certificate

    At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Course Completion Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

    Why Edtech ?

    • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
    • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
    • Intensive Study materials
    • Flexible Schedules
    • Realistic training methodology
    • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
    • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.