15th-17th December, 2025
Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai-U.A.E.
Why you should not miss this event:
Proper maintenance of plant equipment can significantly reduce the overall operating cost, while boosting the productivity of the plant. Although many management functionaries often view plant maintenance as an expense, in truth a well-functioning maintenance section operates as an essential profit centre.
Unfortunately, many businesses are stuck in a reactive maintenance cycle, which forces the maintenance section into the position of being an expense.
Symptoms of a reactive, “fire-fighting” culture include:
- Compromised operational integrity, loss of throughput, i.e. breakdowns,
- A lack of understanding of the basic principles of maintenance excellence, managing the flow of work, resources, and information,
- Attempts at improvements resulting in time delays and excessive costs due to ineffective implementation of a reliability program,
- Knowledge gaps in handling equipment deficiencies and determining if spare parts and materials are suitable for their intended application, and
- Difficulties in maintaining the plant, while having to cope with cost constraints due to a tight budget.
The purpose of this masterclass is to provide insight into the above aspects as they relate to plant reliability and maintenance strategies, as well as examine current practices around maintenance execution and support.
Companies operating in a more stable manner will be able to effectively identify and exploit opportunities, such as the economical life extension of assets, workforce skills and capacities, and expanding current risk management strategies.
This comprehensive three-day masterclass is designed to provide the attendees with a comprehensive survey of reliability issues, solutions, and tools to make better maintenance decisions.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand operational asset efficiency, its associated risks and how this can help increase availability, achieve production targets while containing cost and exploiting opportunities to decreasing costs.
- Understand the fundamentals of Reactive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and Impact Driven Asset Management (IDAM).
- Understand the Digital Twin concept and benefit from its application.
- Learn what the roles, processes, and procedures to ensure organisational effectiveness are, and how they are put into action through Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Describe the key aspects of improving reliability at equipment level that can make a significant difference to the in-service time of equipment, the costs related to over and under maintaining and the optimization of asset utilization.
- Apply an optimized spare-part inventory strategy, preventing spares unavailability by managing critical spares and vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreements.
- Reaping the benefits from artificial intelligence, machine learning and industrial internet of things (IIoT), and
- Apply the concepts of reliability-based maintenance within your current maintenance strategy, avoid common pitfalls during implementation, and ensure the realization of both short-term and long-term gains, ultimately leading to increased uptime of production assets.