Asset Reliability Practitioner Leader (ARP L)

Course outline

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Leader (ARP-L) course is intended for those who have taken the lead role in the reliability and performance improvement program. Great responsibility comes with this great opportunity, and the aim of this course is to set you up for success.

While technical knowledge is an advantage in this role, it is essential that you can lead people, communicate frequently and clearly, and have strong budget and project management skills. You must have a crystal clear vision of how the program will benefit the business and its employees, and a detailed plan, with milestones on how to achieve those goals. You must also understand the nature of the challenges that you will face and have a proactive strategy for overcoming those challenges.

This course is designed to prepare you for that role, and to strengthen your knowledge and skills if you already hold that position. It is based on 30+ years of experience seeing a relatively small number of companies truly succeed in their mission, and countless companies fail.

To ensure that your time 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 take it again soon afterwards to refresh your memory and improve your understanding.

Engineer-x & Leader-x

A Unique Opportunity for Reliability & Performance Improvement Professionals

Under normal reliability certification circumstances, you can take some training and have some experience, and you will take an exam and rightfully so, you are recognized for the knowledge that you have. But that doesn’t prove anything to do with your Competence. A person can be Category I, II or III because they understand what to do, but that doesn’t mean that they have ‘done it’. So we have created x for eXperience. So Engineer-x is the ‘Proven Reliability Engineer’ and the Leader-x is the ‘Proven Reliability Program Leader’. So we will go through an audit process, an interview process, and a verification and validation process to find those individuals who have done it; they don’t just know about it, but they have done it.

We believe that this is a unique opportunity for people who have different levels of knowledge, and they should be recognized for that, but also the actual experience, they should be recognized for that. Recognition that you can do it and have done it.

Online Course – Introduction

The Asset Reliability Practitioner Program Leader (ARP-L) course is intended for those who have taken the lead role in the reliability and performance improvement program. Great responsibility comes with this great opportunity, and the aim of this course is to set you up for success.

While technical knowledge is an advantage in this role, it is essential that you can lead people, communicate frequently and clearly, and have strong budget and project management skills. You must have a crystal clear vision of how the program will benefit the business and its employees, and a detailed plan, with milestones on how to achieve those goals. You must also understand the nature of the challenges that you will face and have a proactive strategy for overcoming those challenges.

How is the online course structured?

Getting started (40 mins)

The basic concepts of your journey to becoming a Reliability Program Leader.

Implementation (2hrs 30)

The implementation (Asset Reliability Transformation) process. How do you get it started and keep it running?

The economics of reliability (3hrs)

The language of money and project justification. If we want the support of senior management and financial controllers, then we must learn to speak their language.

Phase One: Value (7hrs)

Build the business case and gain approval. We will analyze the needs of the business, assess the current state, set targets, and develop the business case so we can gain the support of plant and senior executive management. To support the process we will initiate pilot projects to prove the concept, gain credibility, and start improving reliability.

Phase Two: Strategy (3hrs 30)

The goal we have with work management is to create a streamlined process for managing all maintenance work that reduces costs (and waste) and ensures that jobs are performed efficiently in harmony with operations. We want everything to run smoothly, safely, and in a cost-effective manner.

With spares management the goal is to reduce maintenance costs, reduce the planner’s and scheduler’s workload, and increase equipment reliability by minimizing the spares inventory, taking care of those spares, and ensuring we have quick access to the right parts when we need them.

The psychology of reliability (3hrs)

Understand people, work with people, and understand the foibles of people.

Human error and human performance management (2hrs)

If you are going to take steps to improve reliability, you must address human error. People like you must make it harder for people to make mistakes!

Culture change (2hrs)

There is one major difference between the reliability improvement programs that truly succeed and those that ultimately fail. The difference is the culture of the organization. The culture starts with the most senior management but continues all the way through the organization and includes people within maintenance and operations.

Phase Three: People (4hrs)

Everything rests on the adoption of the “reliability philosophy” by the people. We will succeed if the organization believes that improved reliability and performance will help them personally, and if they are educated on how to contribute.

Phase Four: Control (3hrs 30)

We are ready to start making improvements beyond what we have achieved via the starter projects. We may also have a number of initiatives identified via the EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT step. This stage is required if maintenance needs help…

We have to get maintenance under control so we are capable of handling CM, proactive work, preventive work, etc.

Phase Five: Acquire (1hr 30)

Our goal in the ACQUIRE phase is to ensure we do not import trouble into the plant. We want the equipment to arrive “defect free” with a design that prioritizes reliability, maintainability, operability, and energy efficiency.

Phase Six: Discipline (2hrs 30)

We have achieved a level of maturity and success with our maintenance practices that we are no longer constantly responding to breakdowns. Now it is time to focus on bedding-in the desired practices.

We have more time, greater desire, and the resources to achieve the highest standards in the way we manage, maintain, and operate our assets.

Phase Seven: Care (1hr 45)

We are buying defect-free equipment and spares, our service providers deliver defect-free equipment, we perform all work in a disciplined way which ensures minimal waste and greatly reduced likelihood of defects, but now we must keep the equipment in that state while we operate the plant.

Phase Eight: Analytics (4hrs)

• We must make data driven decisions.
• We need data to reveal problems and opportunities.
• We need to communicate the progress of our initiative.
• This is a key part of our continuous improvement/problem solving culture.

Phase Nine: End of life (1hr 30)

Via the ACQUIRE, DISCIPLINE, and CARE phases we have endeavored to extract the longest life (economically justified) of the asset. But when it fails, we must manage the disposal process, and learn from the failure.

Phase Ten: Optimize (1hr 30)

Throughout our journey thus far, it has been mentioned many times that we wish to improve reliability, reduce waste, improve production output, and as always, reduce the number of safety and environmental incidents.

It is during the OPTIMIZE phase we get to focus on the continuous improvement function.

Culture change (2hrs)

There is one major difference between the reliability improvement programs that truly succeed and those that ultimately fail. The difference is the culture of the organization. The culture starts with the most senior management but continues all the way through the organization and includes people within maintenance and operations.

ARP Leader – Course manual (4hrs)

The detailed ARP-L 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 48 months’ practical work experience in the field of Reliability condition monitoring and diagnostics.

Candidates must complete the training course, experience requirements, and passed the certification exam with a score of 70% or more to be certified for ARP-L 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 Leader (ARP-L) course is intended for those who have taken the lead role in the reliability and performance improvement program. Great responsibility comes with this great opportunity, and the aim of this course is to set you up for success.

While technical knowledge is an advantage in this role, it is essential that you can lead people, communicate frequently and clearly, and have strong budget and project management skills. You must have a crystal clear vision of how the program will benefit the business and its employees, and a detailed plan, with milestones on how to achieve those goals. You must also understand the nature of the challenges that you will face and have a proactive strategy for overcoming those challenges.

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-L 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.