Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP A)

Asset Reliability Practitioner – Advocate

Course outline – Public and Onsite

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP-A) course structure is modeled on the ISO 18436 standards with topics mapped to ISO 55000. The optional Certification Exam is provided by Mobius Institute Board of Certification, (MIBoC) which is ISO/IEC 17024 accredited. Students who meet the experience requirements, complete the course and pass the examination will become certified the highest recognised certification in Reliability available anywhere.

Day 1 – Plant-wide Awareness

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP-A) “Plant-wide Awareness” is intended for everyone working within an organization who in any way influences the management, design, engineering, procurement, maintenance, or operation of an organization that involves critical rotating machinery and electrical equipment.

Whether your organization manufactures products (appliances, automobiles, etc.) or a commodity (mining, oil & gas, etc.); provides an essential service (e.g. water, sewage, power); relies on machinery/electrical equipment (facilities, shipping), or is involved with protecting their country, this course will provide a memorable explanation of how to improve reliability and performance.

No reliability improvement initiative can be successful unless everyone is on the same page. Everyone needs to pull in the same direction. Everyone needs to share the same understanding of the issues, benefits, and remedies. And everyone must be inspired to contribute, support activities intended to improve reliability and performance, and look for opportunities to make improvements. This is the way to create the “culture of reliability”.

The course achieves this goal by utilizing animations and animated simulations that make it understandable, memorable, and interesting. Delivered by passionate industry experts, this course, with the optional exam/certification, the course will make a difference to the future of your organization.

Topic overview

Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP-A)

Understand Why Improvement Is Desired

• Introduction
• Understanding The Benefits
• Supporting The Program
• How Do We Make The Change?

Understand Why “Failure” Occurs

• Understanding “Failure”

Understand What We Can All Do About It

• The “Defect Elimination” Concept
• The “Asset Reliability Strategy”
• Work Management
• Spares Management
• Precision And Proactive Work
• Condition Monitoring
• Breaking Out Of Reactive Maintenance
• Continuous Improvement

Downloads

Mobius Brochure (PDF)

Mobius Course Topics (PDF)

Day 2 – Manager/Engineer Awareness

The Asset Reliability Practitioner (ARP-A) “Manager/Engineer Awareness”  is intended for senior management, maintenance and operations/production management, engineers, junior reliability engineers, and condition monitoring professionals who need to understand the “big picture” of the reliability and performance improvement process.

Whether your organization manufactures products or a commodity; provides an essential service; relies on machinery/electrical equipment, or is involved with protecting their country, this course will provide a memorable explanation of how and why to improve reliability and performance.

This course seeks to achieve two goals:

1. Present the business case, and explain how it is possible to assess the benefits to your organization. You can take what you learn to justify a new program, expand your existing program, or to simply breathe new life into a stale program.

2. Demystify the concepts, terminology, and the process required to improve reliability and performance. All the keys issues will be covered, from defect elimination to the development of the asset strategy, from condition monitoring to operator driven reliability, from culture change to continuous improvement, and so much more.

This course will leave you with a clear vision of what the process is, how to justify the initiative, and all the key elements. You will learn what has worked for other organizations, and why so many programs have failed.

The course achieves these goals by utilizing animations and animated simulations that make it understandable, memorable, and interesting. Potentially complex concepts are easily explained with these proven tools. And to ensure your time is put to best use, you can watch any part of the course, or the entire course, online before you attend the live event. And you can watch it again soon afterwards to refresh your memory and improve your understanding.

Topic overview

• Benefits
• Assessing Your Benefits
• Culture Change
• Selling Senior Management
• Strategy [Plan/Mission/Vision/Team/Support]
• Understanding Failure
• Defect Elimination [Dfr/Procurement/Acceptance Testing/Operators/More]
• Asset Strategy [RTF/CBM/IBM, MAL, ACR, BOM/MOC, FMEA/RCM/PMO, RCA]
• Work Management
• Spares Management
• Precision And Proactive Work [Lubrication/Alignment/Balancing/Fastening]
• Condition Monitoring [CBM/VA/OA/UT/WPA/MCE/IR/More]
• Breaking Out Of Reactive Maintenance
• Continuous Improvement [KPIs/Benchmarking/Education]

Downloads

Mobius Brochure (PDF)

Mobius Course Topics (PDF)

Day 3 – Review & Examination

On the final day we review the past two days in preparation for the exam.

Online Course – Introduction

The Asset Reliability Practitioner – Advocate course is intended for senior management, maintenance and operations/production management, engineers, junior reliability engineers, and condition monitoring professionals who need to understand the “big picture” of the reliability and performance improvement process.

Whether your organization manufactures products or a commodity; provides an essential service; relies on machinery/electrical equipment, or is involved with protecting their country, this course will provide a memorable explanation of how and why to improve reliability and performance.

How is the online course structured?

Implementing your reliability improvement initiative (3hrs 30)

A reliable plant is a safer, more productive, more secure, more environmentally friendly and more competitive plant, and its employees are less stressed and more fulfilled.

To improve reliability we need everyone on the same page and speaking the same language about reliability. And if you do not have the support of senior management, you will struggle to experience true success with your reliability improvement implementation.

Developing your asset strategy (6hrs 30)

In addition to meeting whatever technical requirements a machine has, we consider the life-cycle costs of the
machine. Therefore, we put a high priority on maintainability, operability, and reliability.

To develop our asset strategy we need to know the failure modes, the root causes of failure and we need to eliminate failures.

The goal of the work management program is to create a streamlined process for managing all maintenance work that reduces costs (and waste) and ensures jobs are performed efficiently, in harmony with operations.

When managing spares we can reduce the costs associated with spares, we can make the planning and scheduling process much more efficient, and we can improve reliability by caring for our spares.

Precision and proactive maintenance (1hr 30)

Our goal is to do everything possible to reduce the likelihood of future failures. Do the job correctly the first time and take steps to eliminate root causes of failure (from a maintenance perspective).

Condition monitoring techniques (1hr 30)

The goals of our condition monitoring program are to monitor critical equipment to detect when the root causes of failure exist, and to be forewarned when functional failure will occur. We utilize the condition-based maintenance (CBM) philosophy to plan maintenance based on the condition of the equipment, not its age.

Succeeding in your reliability improvement program (1hr 30)

You will not have success in terms of reliability and performance improvement unless you can break out of the reactive maintenance cycle.

And we ask “when does the reliability improvement program end?”. The answer is “never!”. If we take the focus off these reliability improvement initiatives, we will slip back into old habits.

ARP A – Course manual

The detailed ARP-A training manual is presented here chapter by chapter.

The manual can be read online only. Printed versions can also be ordered.

Conditions and Requirements

Candidates must provide evidence of a minimum of 6 months’ practical work experience in the field of Reliability condition monitoring and diagnostics.

Candidates must complete the training course, experience and hearing test requirements, and passed the certification exam with a score of 70% or more to be certified for ARP-A Asset Reliability Practitioner by MIBoC *

* Certification Exam is provided by Mobius Institute Board of Certification (MIBoC) which is ISO/IEC 17024 accredited in accordance with ISO 18436

Remarks

• The course and exam will be delivered in English.
• In-house training is also possible for a class size of minimum 6 attendees.
• Registration of candidates requires processing by Mobius, so you are requested to confirm your booking.

Who should attend?

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP-A) “Plant-wide Awareness” is intended for everyone working within an organization who in any way influences the management, design, engineering, procurement, maintenance, or operation of an organization that involves critical rotating machinery and electrical equipment.

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Advocate (ARP-A) “Manager/Engineer Awareness” is intended for senior management, maintenance and operations/production management, engineers, junior reliability engineers, and condition monitoring professionals who need to understand the “big picture” of the reliability and performance improvement process.

What is unique about this course?

RMS makes it unique. We use 3D animations, Flash simulations, and numerous software simulators that completely demystify vibration analysis.  While Reliability training courses have traditionally been very theoretical, difficult to understand, (and boring), you will be captivated by the Mobius Training methods, and you will enjoy our practical approach.  You will take away skills that you can immediately apply to your job, and you will truly understand what you are doing.  When senior Reliability analysts attend our classes they often say “if only I could have learned this way when I got started” – well, now you can!

Additional benefits unique to RMS / Mobius Institute courses

Classroom activities

• Sitting and watching an instructor can be boring…  When the instructor is using modern slides, 3D animations, and incredible simulators, there is no way that you will be bored, however there is nothing like hands-on participation.

Hands-on participation accelerates learning and enjoyment (depends on venue)

• In the Mobius Institute courses you can use the simulators, and you can collect readings and study real vibration patterns.  There is no doubt that the simulators make it easier to understand the topics we cover – but when you can use them yourself, the learning is further accelerated.

Workbooks provide feedback – do you really understand?

• We also provide quiz questions that help you check if you really did understand the topics, and that you will be able to make the right decisions in the field (and in the exam).  Every morning we have a lively discussion as we go through the questions.

Take away more than just knowledge

• We don’t just deliver an excellent course.  We provide you with resources that you can use before, during and after the course.

Get started before the course even starts

• Before you even start the course you can visit our Learning Zone Web site to take the self-paced lessons (and read through the manual).  These lessons will help prepare you for the course – you will learn so much more if you go into the course with this knowledge.

Excellent materials that you will treasure forever

• During the course you receive a bearing analysis chart, an Reliability reference guide, (a very handy booklet); a mouse pad that is covered with classic spectra representing common fault conditions; access to quiz styled questions and answers, and our ARP-A manual.  This new manual is easy to read, is filled with illustrations, follows the course slides exactly, contains an excellent “Equipment Knowledge” appendix, and can be used as a reference in the future.

Don’t stop learning just because the course ends

• For six months after the course (or longer for a small fee), you can continue to access the self-paced material on the Web site.  If you forget something that you were taught, or you just want a refresher, then just jump on to the site and go through the fully narrated lessons.

Plant-wide Awareness

Manager/Engineer Awareness

Student eligibility for certification

Advocate: you’ll need 6 months or more experience in Reliability. When completing the experience section on the online registration form please confirm you have sufficient experience. Note that when completing the official exam registration form you will be required to provide a witness who can verify your declared experience.

Engineer: you’ll need 24 months or more experience in Reliability. When completing the experience section on the registration form please confirm you have sufficient experience. Note that when completing the official exam registration form you will be required to provide suitable evidence.

Leader: you’ll need 48 months or more experience in Reliability. When completing the experience section on the registration form please confirm you have sufficient experience. Note that when completing the official exam registration form you will be required to provide suitable evidence.

Sitting the examination

Public Course: Mobius Institute
Online Course: Mobius Online Examination

We offer certification that follows ISO 18436 and ASNT standards for Mobius. It is our policy not to favour one certification institute over the other – use the links above to make your own assessment. The Mobius certification exam price includes postage and packaging of the exam papers, and postage of your printed certificate.

The MOBIUS certification exam price includes postage and packaging of the exam papers, and postage of your printed certificate. The Mobius exam registration is completed by each student once they are logged into their Mobius online portal. This login also gives access to the online pre-study portal.

What can I study online?

We are pleased to offer the following online training courses and learning solutions that include community-based digital support and personal instructor mentoring. You can learn at your own pace, with assistance from an instructor, and optionally take the exam at the end of the course.

• Vibration Analysis: CAT-I, CAT-II, CAT-III and CAT-IV
• Asset Reliability Practitioner (ARP): Advocate, Engineer and Leader
• Ultrasound: CAT-I, CAT-II (Coming soon)
• iLearnReliability CM
• iLearnReliability Professional
• iLearnReliability Enterprise

Distance learning benefits

If the high cost of travel and accommodation, and the time away from your family and work has stopped you from receiving the training that you need, then you should consider our distance learning courses.

At a time that is convenient to you, and at a pace that works best for you, you can take our lessons and learn in a very similar way to attendees of our classroom courses. Depending upon the course, you can either view fully narrated slides, or you can watch a video of the class in action.

Narrated slides

Utilizing the popular iLearn products, we offer distance learning courses where you can view the lessons at your own page, in your own time, and get assistance from an instructor when any questions arise. Of course, you can just buy the products and learn at your own pace without assistance, but you are sure to benefit from interaction with the instructor. In certain courses, you can also interact with other students.

Video lessons

These are not noisy, unprofessional videos taken from actual classrooms, each video was carefully created and edited so that you receive the full benefit. As you can see in this sample, you see the instructor talking and you see the slides (and simulators) being used in high resolution. All you need is a good Internet connection and a good monitor (1024×768 or better) and you will be ready to start learning. You can pause and rewind the video so that you can see and hear the instructor cover the topic again.

In addition to the lessons, hands-on videos are presented where a variety of vibration analyzers are used to perform a range of tests. The tests include demonstrations of averaging (linear, rms, and peak hold), bump tests, run up and coast down tests, simple ODS tests, bearing fault detection tests, phase analysis, live spectrum analysis, time waveform analysis, and more.

You can also perform activities defined by the instructor, and take quizzes that will be reviewed by the instructor.

This is a great way to learn. The convenience of learning from home, and the reduced costs associated with travel, meals and accommodation make this a very attractive option – especially while the world’s economy is still recovering.

Updated (02/11/2021)

1. The registration form must be completed and returned to confirm a place on the course. A valid email address must be supplied for each candidate.
2. Bookings are taken on a first come, first served basis, and must be received prior to attending the course.
3. If you are an existing customer then a valid purchase order must accompany the registration form. Please add the po number to the registration form and send the PO to wendy@rms-reliability.com.
4. If you are a new customer then payment will need to be made on receipt of the invoice. For credit card payments, add your card details to the registration form, or if you prefer, call the accounts department on +44 (0)1206 791917. Please note that in accordance with UK law, there are no processing fees for using personal credit or debit cards. If you are paying with a commercial credit or debit card the processing fee is currently 2.5%.
5. Any cancellations would need to be received at least four weeks before the start of the course, (so we have enough time to offer the place to someone else) otherwise a cancellation fee of half the course costs would be payable. Cancellations need to be confirmed in writing or by email.
6. Notification of a change of candidate or change of course would need to be received at least two weeks before the start of the course. An admin fee of £ 100.00 per candidate will be charged. Any changes need to be notified to us in writing or by email.
7. If a candidate does not attend the course and we have not been notified in advance or we are given less than 1 weeks’ notice, then the full course fee would be payable.

Languages

We would assume that as the course and exam are delivered in English, your level of spoken and written English is sufficient for you to be able to attend the course and take the exam. If English is not your first language we can apply for extra time in advance of the course. Please notify us as soon as possible if there is any other reason why you need extra time in the exam (eg. Dyslexia), so we can see if we can arrange extra time for you in the exam. The exam body will need to be contacted to arrange this.

Pricing & VAT

Prices listed are exclusive of UK VAT, currently at 20%. This applies to all training courses conducted in the UK. Please contact the Training team on +44 (0)1206 791917 if you have any queries.

Training Coordinator

Wendy Whittle
wendy@rms-reliability.com

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