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Description

High-Performance Maintenance: Improving Equipment Reliability and Reducing Downtime

Move beyond constant firefighting by tackling the failures that genuinely cost production

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

A maintenance team can be highly skilled and still be overwhelmed: the same equipment keeps failing, interventions are carried out without any usable history, and nobody can say which stoppages weigh most heavily on production. Effort is then spread thinly across everything that breaks.

Two days of directly applicable tools: measuring equipment performance, using failure history to target costly breakdowns, running a root cause analysis through to a lasting solution, and deploying autonomous maintenance with production teams. The session focuses on the tools themselves rather than on how to organise a maintenance department.

Learning objectives

  • Measure the performance of a piece of equipment and interpret the gaps
  • Use failure history to target the right actions
  • Run a root cause analysis through to elimination of the defect
  • Build a preventive maintenance plan proportionate to the risk
  • Introduce autonomous maintenance with equipment operators

What makes this programme different

Analyses are carried out on failure records brought in by the participants
Equipment performance rate calculation is worked through step by step, up to how it is presented in a meeting
A first autonomous maintenance standard is drafted for a real piece of equipment

Programme

1Measuring equipment performance

Indicators that point to action

  • Break down equipment losses into downtime, speed and quality losses
  • Calculate an overall performance rate and understand its limits
  • Distinguish between reliability and maintainability indicators
  • Present results to production without turning them into blame

2Targeting the failures that matter

Sort before acting

  • Clean up and structure an intervention history
  • Classify stoppages by equipment and by cause
  • Identify repeat failures and high-cost failures
  • Select the reliability improvement projects to launch

3Analysing and eliminating causes

Treat the defect, not the symptom

  • Run a root cause analysis with the people involved
  • Distinguish technical, human and organisational causes
  • Verify the cause before deciding on the solution
  • Document the modification and confirm its effectiveness

4Prevention and involving production

Reliability is won day to day

  • Size the preventive plan according to equipment criticality
  • Build preventive task sheets that can genuinely be executed
  • Define the autonomous maintenance tasks entrusted to operators
  • Organise inspection and cleaning as a means of early detection

Who is it for

Maintenance technicians and supervisors, together with production managers involved in equipment reliability improvement.

Prerequisites

Practical experience in industrial maintenance.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.