Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis

The need for asset integrity is a key driver for any industry. Improving maintenance and reliability ensures the optimum performance of assets against a backdrop of regulatory, safety and cost pressures. Maintenance needs to improve the integrity and availability of assets while minimising costs. FMECA is a methodology for predicting potential failures and the consequences of those failures. The output of the analysis is used to direct effort appropriately into preventing failures, with the overall aim of reducing the risk of failure to an acceptable level. Criticality analysis is a key technique for understanding which items of equipment, or systems, are most important to operations. Knowing which items are most critical allows engineers to prioritise maintenance effort into the most beneficial and necessary areas for the business. When applied effectively criticality analysis and FMECA both result in optimising equipment maintenance policies that save money and increase reliability.

Salvo Global’s masterclass is intended to provide a solid foundation of the Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) or Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) based on defined industry standards and requirements. Mastering the content will improve product quality, reliability, and launch effectiveness.

Top Learning Objectives

  • Apply RCFA, 5 Why and FMEA methodologies in failure investigation
  • Think through the possibilities of physical root causes of a failure that go beyond a quick fix
  • Recognize the presence of event chains leading to a failure and analyze causes behind the causes
  • Verify or disprove contributing causes
  • Identify actions or recommendations that will avoid a repetition of the failure or problem investigated
  • Create a fault tree of an incident
  • Look for relevant evidence in a failure investigation or accident
  • Trace and identify the causes of equipment failures and industrial accidents
  • Spot high-risk situations and act to prevent problems
  • Understand the typical human factors involved in failures and accidents

Who Should Attend

This course is very relevant to technical engineers and professionals who handle and are responsible for their organisations’ maintenance; as well as the overall smooth operations and processes of their organizations’ plants and machineries. These include Superintendents, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Heads of Department, Engineers, Foreman, Planners, Directors of the following departments:

  • Maintenance
  • Mechanical
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Physical Asset Management
  • Production
  • Reliability
  • Process
  • Control
  • Instrumentation
  • Engineering
  • Operations
  • Plant
  • Transmission
  • Automation
  • Inspection

Trainer's Background

  • He is a licensed reliability training specialist under the American Society for Quality Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) with over 29 years’ industrial field and classroom experience in Operations Technology, engineering reliability analysis and implementation within power generation, food processing, rotating equipment; heavy duty industries, hydraulic pumps and valves. [The Trainer] hold a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering majored in Materials Science and Engineering Reliability, Failure Analysis from University of Ottawa.
  • His expertise includes analysing failure patterns for industrial assets and defining failure mode effects and mechanism and criticality analysis (FMECA). He uses the Plan Wellness Way (PWW) Physics of Failures Factors Analysis strategy management (POFFA) model to identify critical components and bad sectors. He is also adept in developing management programs for operation, production, maintenance and design, and improvement and cost reduction programs.
  • He has designed and developed training curriculums and contents to address identified skill gaps that hinder operations and processes benefits and timely deliveries. Based on reliability modelling and prediction, reliability design, testing and reliability management tools, he analysed, applied and documented tools and techniques including failure analysis, risk assessment and ranking, root cause analysis, failure modes effect and criticality analysis and HAZOP.
  • He is passionate about reliability and continuous improvement, and committed in fostering PWW/LRS (Plant Wellness Way/ Lifetime Reliability Solutions) through failure elimination, reliability excellence, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Preventive, Predictive maintenance, CBM, and RCM strategies. His training helped many industrial organizations to save great money and time as their people became aware and advised to take ownership and perform value-creating operation and repair decisions, accurate testing, data collection, and analysis, failures elimination strategies.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Face-to-Face Masterclass
Date: 17th – 18th July 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location:Yaoundé, Cameroon

Combine this training with Essentials of Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

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This course will be held in French

DISPLAY IN FRENCH LANGUAGE