Course Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice and the fundamentals of reliability improvement. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participant on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain how pace-setters achieve outstanding reliability performance and how to use the Carcharodon Model of Excellence
• Develop reliability programs that align with the unique needs of their business, asset and maintenance strategies
• Analyze their current performance against best-in-class benchmarks
• Calculate potential fixed and variable cost reductions along with productivity, output, and product quality improvements, that can be delivered through reliability improvement
• Apply key reliability improvement methodologies and tools to improve reliability performance
• Explain to colleagues the fundamentals of best practice in reliability, including the responsibilities of design and operations as well as maintenance
• Engage colleagues and consider the human factors required to support a high reliability culture

Target Audience

This course is suitable for reliability engineers, maintenance managers, maintenance supervisors, planners, project managers, project engineers, operations managers, shift managers, operations supervisors and people who are in training for these positions. This course is also designed for contractors who want to contribute to the reliability performance of client assets.​

Target Competencies

• Reliability analysis
• Use of reliability tools
• Risk assessment
• Continuous improvement
• Program management