Maintenance Management Optimisation

When: Tuesday 31 August – Wednesday 1 September
Where: Sheraton Santiago Hotel & Convention Center
Professors: Dr. Andrew Jardine, University of Toronto, Canada; Dr. Darko Louit, Komatsu, Chile; and Dr. Rodrigo Pascual, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Language: The course will be taught in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation   

 

OBJECTIVE
This course is designed to demonstrate how companies can optimise inspection and replacement intervals for components and equipment in accordance with solid economic and risk criteria. The course will show how maintenance history can be used to quantify the risk of a fault (in terms of cost for the company), which will lead to an effective evaluation of equipment’s reliability and the resulting impact. The techniques covered in this course have been successfully applied in a large number of international companies. Case studies from a variety of industries will be discussed.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Plant managers, maintenance managers, superintendents, supervisors, maintenance engineers, maintenance planners and reliability engineers should attend this course. It is intended for professionals who work in fields related to maintenance and reliability of industrial equipment.

MATERIALS
All participants will receive a binder with the course notes.

PROGRAMME 

PROFESSORS

Andrew K.S. Jardine, Ph.D., is a professor and Chief Researcher at the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering (C-MORE) of the University of Toronto, Canada. Here, he has developed the software EXAKT, for maintenance optimization based on condition, as well as the software SMS, for the optimization of decisions regarding spare parts inventory. Additionally, Dr. Jardine is a consultant for the Centre for Excellence in Asset Management with IBM Global Business Services. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England, specializing in the development of mathematical models for decision making in equipment maintenance and replacement. He is the author of AGE/CON, a software designed to determine the economic life of mobile equipment, and he is also the author of the OREST software, designed to optimize the intervals of spare components’ replacement. Professor Jardine has also written numerous articles for various publications, including Maintenance Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Costs, co-edited by by John D. Campbell, and Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability: Theory and Applications, written in conjunction with Albert H.C. Tsang. Dr. Jardine is regarded among the most well respected figures globally in the field of industrial maintenance and reliability.
 

Darko Louit Nevistic, Ph.D., is the Manager of Business and Projects at Komatsu Chile S.A. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering (C-MORE) of the University of Toronto, Canada. Previously to this, he was a professor at the Mining Centre of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he dedicated himself to teaching and research in the fields of mining operations and maintenance and reliability of industrial equipment. Dr. Louit earned his M.Sc. en Mining Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and is an industrial civil engineer. He has been a consultant to important mining and industrial companies in Chile, Argentina, Canada and Colombia. He has published many articles in journals and international conferences, and has also taught multiple courses on maintenance engineering. 

 Rodrigo Pascual, Ph.D., is a full-time professor at the Mining Centre of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned his Ph.D. from the Laboratory of Aeronautical and Space Techniques of the Université de Liège, Belgium. He is a mechanical civil engineer, graduated from the Universidad de Concepción. He is specialized in the development and implementation of methods for optimizing physical asset management, most specifically in aspects related to life cycle management of industrial and military equipment. He is the director of the Management Laboratory of the Mining Centre at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has taught a series of courses and has participated in various consultancies within his area of expertise. He has published many articles in journals and international conferences, among some of which are El Arte de Mantener. He is a guest faculty member at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Toronto, Canada. From 2000 to 2008 he was a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Universidad de Chile.