Defect elimination: how to proactively prevent the root cause of machine breakdowns?

Practice often proves to be more obstinate than theory when it comes to machine breakdowns. The importance of operational reliability is known wherever machines are in operation. Due to the large negative impact of machine breakdowns or problems, it is important to actively work on this.

This two-day course is designed to teach the principles of increasing the operational safety of the most common machines in production facilities through Defect Elimination. In addition to providing the participants with skills and insights into this topic, this training provides answers to questions such as:

• What factors lead to a more efficient and effective approach to machine breakdowns?
• How do you avoid hasty work, 'trial and error' repairs, jumping to conclusions and making bad ad hoc decisions?
• What are the most common failure modes of machines? And how do I tackle their root cause?

• Understand why to invest in the pre PF stage
• Understand the operation of pumps, electric motors, gearboxes and fans
• Proactively prevent failures, associated production downtime and high maintenance costs, by sustainably addressing the root causes of machine failure modes through Defect Elimination

• Design Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
• Defect elimination philosophy
• Contact mechanics
• Machine learning: Pumps
  • Types and operation of pumps
  • Failure modes of pumps
  • Detection methods according to the failure mechanism
  • Defect elimination strategy: proactive prevention of pump failures
• Machine learning: electric motors
  • Types and operation of electric motors
  • Failure modes of electric motors
  • Detection methods according to the failure mechanism
  • Defect elimination strategy, proactive prevention of electric motor failures
• Machine learning: Gearboxes
  • Types / operation of gearboxes
  • Failure modes of gearboxes
  • Detection methods in function of failure mechanism
  • Defect elimination strategy, proactive prevention of gearbox failures

Driven by a curiosity for people and technology, Pedro Viña is a lifelong learner and loves to share his knowledge, practical experiences and insights in industrial applications. He has more than 30 years of experience in solving complex problems with creative "out-of-the-box" solutions in challenges of every major industry.

He developed his pragmatic approach in maintenance departments in Antwerp, where he started as maintenance engineer for a refinery and ended as technology manager rotating equipment for a chemical company. Within I-care, he is in charge of education, training and development for I-care's own employees as well as for end users in the industry.

Everybody in maintenance, reliability, asset management and production who is responsible for the functioning of assets in an industrial environment.