CBM Workshops For Maintenance Teams to Build Understanding and Confidence
Improving understanding, confidence and effective use of condition based maintenance information
These workshops are designed for technicians, maintenance supervisors, team leaders and maintenance managers who work with CM information but are not expected to interpret vibration data or become analysts.
The focus is on building a practical grounding in CBM principles, terminology and limitations, so teams understand what the information means, what can be trusted and how it should be used to support maintenance decisions. The workshops are also aimed at addressing scepticism by explaining CBM in plain language, using real examples rather than theory.
CBM Awareness & Foundations Workshops
- What CBM is
- Common CBM terminology
- What type of failures can CBM detect
- Where CBM adds value in day to day maintenance
- Why CBM sometimes loses credibility
Using CBM Information in Maintenance
- Understanding CBM reports and recommendations
- What maintenance teams should expect from CBM outputs
- Confidence in alarms, trends and severity
- How CBM should support planning and scheduling
- Recognising false alarms and over monitoring
CBM for Supervisors and Managers
- What "good" CBM looks like from a management perspective
- Setting realistic expectations for CBM performance
- Using CBM information to support decisions
- Integrating CBM with maintenance processes
- Avoiding common organisational failure modes
CBM and RCFA in Practice
- Using CBM findings as evidence in RCFA
- Distinguishing failure modes from root causes
- Identifying repeat failures using CBM history
- Closing the feedback loop from RCFA back into CBM
- Preventing the same failures being rediscovered
All workshops are discussion based, experienced-led and tailored to the site's assets and level of CBM maturity. No software demonstrations or vendor promotion.