Specialist, practical based training courses for manufacturing businesses

We provide professional training courses and workshops that are tailored to the meet the needs of your business.

Most courses are provided ‘in-house’ at our Client’s site but we also provide some ‘public’ courses near to Kidderminster on a regular basis.

MPI training courses available are:

Machinery and Equipment Maintenance:

  • Maintenance Best Practice for Managers
  • Maintenance Practices for Engineers and Technicians

Asset Management Overview:

  • An introduction to manufacturing asset management
  • ISO 55000
  • Asset management strategy development

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM):

  • An introduction to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • TPM awareness and planning Workshops
  • TPM Team awareness and launch

Capital Acquisition Best Practice:

  • Capex projects planning and execution
  • Project justification and life cycle costing
  • Early equipment management processes
  • Minimising project risk and maximising return

Machinery Reliability:

  • Reliability approaches, tools and techniques
  • Best practice maintenance
  • Root cause analysis and pro-active approaches

Energy Efficient Maintenance:

  • An overview of energy efficient maintenance approaches

We can also tailor training courses specifically to meet your requirements including from 1 to 1 sessions to company wide training programmes.

Contact us for more information on any of our training courses and workshops.

Example training course briefs are provided below:

Introduction to TPM

An Introduction to TPM – Brief

TPM is a whole new approach to maintaining and improving company facilities and processes. It implements a change in working practices, values, relationships and the very culture of the company whilst greatly improving operational effectiveness and hence profitability.

This one day training workshop provides attendees with a good understanding of the principles and practices of TPM and the steps that are required to achieve a successful implementation of this world class approach. The workshop includes:

Introduction and Background to TPM: The roots of TPM and how it has developed in the Western World.

The Need to Change: The drivers for change and how TPM can be used as a change mechanism.

TPM Principles and Practices: The building blocks of TPM and how TPM teams put them into practice.

The 6 Big Losses and OEE: How we can identify the major losses, quantify them calculate OEE and use it to direct improvement activities.

TPM Implementation and Benefits: The practical steps to introduce and establish TPM and the benefits expected.

Making TPM Stick: The approach that needs to be taken and the structure that needs to be put in place to ensure long term success.

The Recipe for Success: The most important factors for successful and sustained TPM programme.

Who Should Attend?

Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, Engineers, Line Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors involved in:

  • Operations
  • Manufacturing/Production
  • Engineering/Maintenance
  • Process Improvement

The training workshop is provided by MPI Ltd. who specialise in the provision of training and ‘hands on’ support services related to TPM, Maintenance Approaches and Organisational Change. The workshop will be delivered by a trainer with over 12 years experience of TPM implementation across a wide range of organisations and industries across the UK and overseas.

To book your place on the next scheduled workshop or for more information on ‘in house’ courses and support servicescontact us.

Introduction to WCM

An Introduction to WCM – Brief

Introduction

The maintenance of company assets should be a very important part of any company strategy. If businesses aspire to be ‘world class’ Le. better than or at least as good as their global competitors then they must aim to operate in the most effective way, making the best use of all resources.

There are many different approaches to the maintenance of company assets, particularly plant and machinery, all of which will provide benefits. The objective of World class maintenance is to apply the most cost-effective maintenance approach, tools and techniques to suit a particular company’s situation and needs.

The training course describes the maintenance approaches, tools and techniques that are available to maintenance professionals, explores their strengths and weaknesses and discusses how they can be most effectively applied.

Who Should Attend?

The training course is suitable for the following:

  • Production, Manufacturing and Operations Managers and Directors
  • Engineering, Maintenance, Production Engineering and Process Engineering Managers and Directors
  • Production and Engineering ‘Line Managers’ including Supervisors, Team Leaders, Charge hands, etc.
  • Senior Production Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Process Engineers and Maintenance Engineers.

Pre-requisites

No prior knowledge of maintenance practices is necessary but attendees should have a reasonable knowledge of manufacturing and engineering principles.

Course Objectives

The overall objectives for the training course are:

  • To explain the background and history of maintenance.
  • To describe the main maintenance approaches
  • To describe the main maintenance tools and techniques . To discuss how and when the approaches, tools and techniques should be applied and compare their effectiveness in particular situations
  • To explain how a world class maintenance strategy can be developed and implemented
  • To provide an opportunity to discuss the practical problems of implementing World class maintenance and how the programme has to be supported

Course Structure

The training course will consist of:

  • Lectures on a particular topic, reinforced by
  • Syndicate exercises

Actual examples and case studies are used to support the course material. Discussion is encouraged.

The training course will include the following sessions:

  • AM – The history of maintenance
  • AM – Maintenance definition & objectives
  • AM – Maintenance measures of performance
  • AM – Maintenance approaches: Reactive, PPM, RCM
  • PM – Condition monitoring, TPM, CMMS, Contract out.
  • PM – Developing & implementing a WC Maintenance strategy
  • PM – Summary and Discussion

Documentation

The following documentation will be provided or generated during the training course:

A comprehensive set of course notes
Forms and checklists

For more information contact us.