Failure Mechanisms

Duration: 3 days
Maximum number of attendees: 20

Workshop Overview

This workshop is designed for the following participants: Maintenance Managers, Reliability
and Maintenance Engineers, Top Level Maintenance Technicians, Production Managers,
Plant Engineers and anyone who is involved in Reliability Engineering strategies or
methodologies.

On successful completion of the course, participants will have attained the skills to be more
effective at driving reliability improvement initiatives on site, which in turn, delivers a rapid
return on investment (ROI) for their respective companies. Failure Mechanisms is widely
touted as the precursor to any formal RCA methodology training (i.e: understand how the
asset will/did fail before attempting to work out a solution to design out the failure mode).

Course Description

The course is a “hands-on” interactive learning experience that addresses both mechanical
and metallurgical failure mechanisms across standard industrial machinery and components.
The material is supported and reinforced with extensive case histories (400 kgs) and course
participants are challenged to validate their learning through various class exercises.
Attendees are encouraged to take their own failed components for analysis during the course
to maximize course benefit.

What you will learn:

• In depth understanding of how • Material Fracture Mechanisms

components and mechanical systems • Corrosion Failures
fail • Lubricant Failure Mechanisms
• Detailed understanding of the symptoms • Wear Failures
that failure mechanisms produce • Rolling Element Bearing Failures
• Detailed understanding of how failure • Plain Bearing Failures
modes behave • Gear Failures
• Introduction to Metallurgy • Filter Failure
• Inspection Techniques
What are the course costs?

• In the US and Puerto Rico call for pricing: 888-335-8276

• In Europe and the Middle East call for pricing: +32 477 97 70 20
• All other direct inquiries for Asia Pacific and other regions e-mail training@gpallied.com

Course Presenter: Leith Hitchcock, CMRP

Leith Hitchcock is reliability professional at GPAllied with
more than 20 years of experience in Reliability Engineering
(RE), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Machinery
Condition-based Monitoring (CBM), Failure Modes Effects
and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Total Productivity
Maintenance (TPM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA). He
has technical expertise in developing and applying machinery
reliability improvement strategies which requires his in-depth
knowledge of redeveloping machinery specifications and
procedures.
Leith has extensive expertise in machinery overhaul QA/
QC including turbo alternators, generators, turbines, high
and medium voltage motors (415V, 3.3KV, 6.6KV and 11KV
including ExD and ExN), screw compressors, centrifugal
compressors, reciprocating compressors, pumps, fans,
gearboxes, extruders, mixers, diesel engines and most other
petrochemical industry machinery. He has experience with
most fixed and mobile mining equipments. He has some
familiarity with Kaplan, Farncis and Pelton Hydro-Electric
turbines.
Leith has been a consultant and trainer to the
petrochemical, oil and gas, mining, power generation, co-
generation, pulp and paper, cement, metals manufacturing,
packaging, plastics, food and beverage processing and
building services industry sectors. Some of the companies
with whom Leith has provided Reliability consultancy and
training services include: Comalco, TetraPak, Visy Paper,
BHP, AMOCO, Pasminco Metals, Sydney Harbour Tunnel,
Hunter Valley Rewinds, SKF, Pacific power, Australian Paper,
Sithe Energies, ESSO, Castrol, CSIRO, Mobil, Shell, ICI,
Baxters Health Care, South Blackwater Coal, North Parkes
Mines, Cadia mines, NS Komatsu, Shell Coal, Rio Tinto,
Tasmanian Hydro Electric Corporation, Thiess, Anaconda
Operations, Melbourne Water, Placer Dome Group, QNI,
Millmerran Power, Pan Pac (NZ), Origin Energy, ABB, and
Carter Holt Harvey.
Leith has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
He is a Chartered Professional Engineer, a Member of
the Institution of Engineers in Australia, and a Member
of the Australian Institute of Non-destructive Testing. He
is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional
(CMRP) through the Society of Maintenance and Reliability
Professionals (SMRP) and is member of the Association
for Maintenance Professionals (AMP). Leith is a Vibration
Analyst (Level III), IR Thermographer (Level II), Oil/Tribology
Analyst (Level II), is an RCM II Facilitator certified (Aladon)
and is a certified Change Management Facilitator (Prosci).
Leith is also NDT qualified in the fields of Dye Penetrant and
Magnetic Particle inspection methods and has been a NATA
signatory. He is on the board for SMRP, SMRP Certifying
Organization (SMRPCO), AINDT Certifying board and ICML
Technical Advisory board.
He has been appointed a visiting lecturer and Visiting
Industry Fellow to the QUT Faculty of Built Environment
and Engineering and a Fellow to the Centre for Integrated
Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM) CRC.

About GPAllied: In March of 2009, Allied Reliability and General Physics created GPAllied to bring together
the unique capabilities and synergistic strengths of two thought leaders. This combination allows for global
consulting, training, and engineering implementation never before realized by the industry. This opportunity
to increase our collective offerings to the marketplace makes it possible for use to increase the value of our
public, web-based and private training offerings. Our hard-hitting, impactful training addresses the specific
needs of your employees, delivers value for your training dollars, and produces bottom-line results.

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