Configure effective and attainable maintenance strategies to increase your productivity rate and maximise return on pre-existing and new asset investments. You will learn from real life case studies on how you are able to reach international maintenance requirements and skill competency; identifying outcomes-based plant KPIs; master the latest predictive technology and condition monitoring techniques; understand budget requirements and become adept in effective maintenance scheduling and execution tactics to lower the total cost of asset ownership.

Reliability and Maintenance Week 2011 will present the only platform in Africa to look at technical, on-the-ground issues, African case studies, challenges and realistic technical solutions including topics such as:

• Development programmes and measures for cost-effective maintenance
• Cost/benefit and implementation of maintenance scheduling
• Maintenance planning and configuration
• Performance management and staff resourcing
• Managing backlog efficiently
• Skills retention, transfer and development
• Data collection, data management and buying processes
• Maintenance standards
• Asset management

The integrative programme for Reliability and Maintenance Week 2011 is to bring plant and operations managers, maintenance managers and engineering professionals together to share knowledge, impart with experiences in implementing working maintenance/reliability strategies and present solutions to Africa’s current challenges in preserving, upgrading and ensuring continuous reliability of physical, financial and human assets .

Reliability & Maintenance Week 2011 will include two tracks focusing on challenges in the public and private sector in order to allow engineers to strive towards the common goal of keeping Africa internationally competitive. Reliability and Maintenance Week 2011 will present the platform for discussion on:

• effective predictive and preventative maintenance
• non-destructive testing and other technical means to assess condition
• maintenance and reliability strategy development
• effectively implementing strategies and developing thereafter
• risk assessment of maintenance practices - cost/benefit perspectives
• planning, configuration and scheduling of maintenance practices
• how to optimise plant asset output and increase financial gain
• increasing uptime
• reliability standards such as PAS55 and the implementation thereof