Maintenance And Reliability Best Practices By Ricky Smith

Ricky Smith

Author

Ricky Smith

Lead Instructor, SME

Ricky Smith is a well-known Maintenance and Reliability book author, consultant, and best practices educator worldwide. Authoring such books as “Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers”, “Industrial Machinery Repair, “Lean Maintenance”, “Failure Reporting Made Simple” and many more.

Ricky has over 30 years’ experience working as a Maintenance and Reliability Professional for companies/organizations such as US Army, Exxon Company USA, Alcoa Mt Holly, Kendall Company, and Life Cycle Engineering. In addition, Ricky worked as a Maintenance Consultant/ Educator with hundreds of companies in over 30 countries world-wide.

Ricky is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP),a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician (CMRT) and a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL). Graduated from the University of Georgia and Trident Technical College. Ricky worked for one of three plants in the world every certified as achieving “World Class Maintenance” and is commonly making the statement, World Class Production thru World Class Maintenance (Alcoa, Mt Holly)

Some of the clients Ricky has helped with:

  • ArcelorMittal Steel 
  • Gallatin Steel 
  • Georgia-Pacific Corp 
  • Perdue Farms 
  • Fontana 
  • US Department of State 
  • US Army Saudi Aramco
  • Oman Petroleum 
  • Gold Corp (Canada) 
  • Charleston Public Works 
  • Reliance (India) 
  • Life Cycle Engineering (globally) 
  • Irving Oil 
  • New-Indy Paper

Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices will provide any organization proven methods and concepts to help their organization obtain a highly level of Maintainability and Reliability. 

This is an interactive training course covering Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices as proven by the best Maintenance organizations in the world. The objective of this program is to equip participants with Known Maintenance and Reliability best practices (World Class Maintenance) and provide them with knowledge which will better prepare them to transition any Maintenance Organization to a highly level of effectiveness and efficiency. 

Known Best Maintenance Practices will be defined and demonstrated, along with numerous “hands on exercises) to enhance learning, and attendees will work in groups on real world issues in each functional area in maintenance and reliability allowing learning from the instructor and fellow attendees.

What you Should Expect from this Course?

  1. Better understanding of Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices and how to apply in any organization. 
  2. Recognition of the gaps in your MaintenanceOrganization and how to close those gaps. 
  3. A simple plan one can implement when they return. 
  4. Feel pride in your Maintenance Work through the knowledge one has gained. 
  5. Less stress through new knowledge and skills gained. 
  6. Over 12 “Hands on” Exercises

Course Objectives:

1.Learn what are Known Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices and how to apply in any organization. 

2.Review what is “World Class Maintenance” (based on the Alcoa Mt Holly Model, workflow, attributes, benchmarks and how to achieve this level of performance) 

3.Assess the current state of your Maintenance Organization and create a plan to Optimize through application of the “Crawl, Walk, Run Methodology” 

4.Learn how to: 

  • Develop Maintenance Leading and Lagging KPI Scorecard for your Organization 
  • Define Roles and Responsibilities for all Maintenance Functions using RACI 
  • Perform a PM Optimization in your plant/facility on assets which are not meeting expectations 
  • Increase “Maintenance Wrench-Time” through optimizing Maintenance Planning and Scheduling 
  • Create Maintenance Process Maps and why are so critical to optimization of your Maintenance Function 
  • Optimize use of Maintenance Technician through “Best Maintenance Technician Practices” 
  • Reduce Maintenance Rework and Optimize Mean Time Between Failures through proven concepts and principles 
  • Define what is Preventive and Predictive Maintenance and how they impact proactive maintenance. 
  • Implement a “Change a Management Process” which transitions your current maintenance culture to a more proactive culture 
  • Optimize a Maintenance Storeroom resulting reduced stockouts 

5.Become more confident as a Proactive Maintenance Professional because of knowledge provided along with over 12 “Hands On” Exercises 

6.How to move from the Current State to an Increased reliability of production assets

Course program

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Certificate

A certificate is given at the end of the course.

Maintenance And Reliability Best Practices By Ricky Smith

The course will be available 60 Day

Maintenance And Reliability Best Practices By Ricky Smith

Ricky Smith

Author

Ricky Smith

Lead Instructor, SME

Ricky Smith is a well-known Maintenance and Reliability book author, consultant, and best practices educator worldwide. Authoring such books as “Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers”, “Industrial Machinery Repair, “Lean Maintenance”, “Failure Reporting Made Simple” and many more.

Ricky has over 30 years’ experience working as a Maintenance and Reliability Professional for companies/organizations such as US Army, Exxon Company USA, Alcoa Mt Holly, Kendall Company, and Life Cycle Engineering. In addition, Ricky worked as a Maintenance Consultant/ Educator with hundreds of companies in over 30 countries world-wide.

Ricky is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP),a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician (CMRT) and a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL). Graduated from the University of Georgia and Trident Technical College. Ricky worked for one of three plants in the world every certified as achieving “World Class Maintenance” and is commonly making the statement, World Class Production thru World Class Maintenance (Alcoa, Mt Holly)

Some of the clients Ricky has helped with:

  • ArcelorMittal Steel 
  • Gallatin Steel 
  • Georgia-Pacific Corp 
  • Perdue Farms 
  • Fontana 
  • US Department of State 
  • US Army Saudi Aramco
  • Oman Petroleum 
  • Gold Corp (Canada) 
  • Charleston Public Works 
  • Reliance (India) 
  • Life Cycle Engineering (globally) 
  • Irving Oil 
  • New-Indy Paper
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