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Course Brochure 2015/16
Training solutions from Egerton Consulting
Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
Open and In-Company Training ....................................................................... 2
Open Courses .................................................................................................. 3
Introduction to Reliability Engineering .......................................................... 3
Preliminary Hazard Analysis ......................................................................... 4
Introduction to FMEA and Human Error Identification .................................. 5
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) ................................................ 6
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) ............................. 7
Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis (FTA and ETA) .................................... 8
Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (ARM) Studies ............................ 9
Vital Statistics for Safety and Reliability Engineers .................................... 10
Proposed Schedule of Open Courses 2015/16 .............................................. 11
Booking Form................................................................................................. 12
Introduction
Welcome to our training solutions brochure. Here you will find information about
each of our courses, so you can choose the best one for you.
Egerton Consulting has been running courses in Reliability Engineering and
Statistical Science for over 10 years. During this time we have fine-tuned our
courses based on feedback from our delegates to ensure you receive the best
training possible. In addition, we operate a Quality Management System which has
been ISO 9001:2008 certified, so you have the assurance of our commitment to
providing a service of quality.
Our courses are designed to not only enhance your skills, but also to provide a
competitive advantage to your organisation. Training sessions are structured to
stimulate discussion and give you the opportunity to explore areas that are relevant
to your workplace. This flexibility also enables us to address any issues that arise
during the training sessions themselves.
Our course presenters are practising
consultants who have many years’
experience of applying the techniques they
teach, so rather than taking away just
theory, you’ll have a practical
understanding of the principles and how
they can be used to address the
challenges you face on a day-to-day basis.
This is supported with many real-life
examples as well as practical exercises.
We also believe that an appreciation of the ideas and philosophy underlying each of
the techniques is fundamental to gaining understanding, so this is a core part of our
training.
You will be given a set of comprehensive course notes at the beginning of your
course, as well as copies of the presentations. This means you can review the
course material and refresh your knowledge days, weeks or even months later. And
while you gain confidence in applying the techniques you have learnt, we offer
ongoing help and support with half a day’s free consultancy advice included in your
course fee.
If you have little or no experience, we recommend that you attend our Introduction to
Reliability Engineering course, which we run twice a year, before moving on to other
more specialised subject areas.
Please feel free to contact us if there is anything you want to discuss, or if you have
any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
Amanda and Martin Egerton
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Open and In-Company Training
We run a programme of open courses throughout the year.
Our open courses are ideal if you are looking to train just one or two people from
your organisation in a particular subject area. We always encourage discussion
around each delegate’s particular workplace challenges, ensuring a practical
understanding of the techniques. We also offer a discount if you wish to make a
booking for two or more delegates on any one of our open courses – the second and
each additional delegate will receive a 20% discount.
With us you can make your training plans with confidence. If we have accepted a
booking for a course, our policy is to run it – we will never cancel or postpone a
course because of low numbers, so you won’t be disappointed.
To ensure personal attention and interactive discussion, we limit numbers on our
open courses to a maximum of eight delegates. All of our open courses are currently
held in the Swindon area either at a conference venue or, for smaller groups, at our
own training facility in the nearby village of Minety.
Places on open courses can be booked in any of four ways:
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By telephoning us on +44 (0)1666 860993
Online via our website at www.egertonconsulting.com
By sending an email to us at training@egertonconsulting.com
By posting a completed Booking Form to us at Egerton Consulting Ltd, The
Green, Minety, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 9PL, UK
If you are looking for a more flexible solution, or you have a number of delegates
who would benefit from training, then we can tailor a course to your specific
requirements. Our in-company courses can be run at a venue of your choice.
In-company courses have the added advantage of helping to facilitate team-building.
If you have four or more delegates, they also offer a cost-effective solution.
Please give us a call on +44 (0)1666 860993 to discuss your training needs. We’ll be
happy to provide a no obligation quotation for running a course tailored to your
requirements.
If you have any further questions before choosing a training solution, contact us and
we will be pleased to help.
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Open Courses
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
5 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: 2 - 6 March 2015
28 September - 2 October 2015
29 February – 4 March 2016
26 – 30 September 2016
Who should attend?
If you're looking for a general introduction to all of the main reliability engineering
techniques, then this course is for you. Whether you work in reliability engineering or
safety analysis this course will give you a fundamental understanding of the
techniques and how to apply them to engineering systems.
Why attend?
In today's competitive environment organisations are being constantly challenged to
improve performance and reduce costs. By effectively applying reliability engineering
techniques you can achieve dramatic improvements in the reliability and availability
of process plant resulting in savings of up to 10% in capital costs and similar savings
in plant operation.
What does the course cover?
This course removes the mystique surrounding reliability engineering techniques and
covers:
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Reliability Block Diagrams
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Studies
Fault Tree Analysis
Dependent / Common Cause Failures
Event Tree Analysis
Markov Analysis
Component Failure and Repair Distributions
Monte Carlo Simulation
Maintenance and Maintainability Analysis
(including Reliability Centred Maintenance)
Root Cause Analysis
Reliability Data and Analysis
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: £1495 + VAT
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Preliminary Hazard Analysis
1 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: In-company course only
Who should attend?
If you want to identify and overcome
deficiencies in design but have no
experience of reliability engineering then
this is the course for you. Whether you work
in R&D, design, construction or operations
this course will give you the understanding
and confidence to identify hazards
associated with your own plant and
processes.
Why attend?
It is important to identify hazards in advance of their occurrence if safety and
reliability are to be maximised without incurring excessive costs. Preliminary Hazard
Analysis (also known as What If? Analysis) is a very simple but effective technique
for identifying such hazards. You can then take appropriate action either to design
them out or to manage their consequences and so ensure that the likelihood of major
incidents in the future can be reduced or minimised.
What does the course cover?
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The PHA approach and its application
The incorporation of checklists within PHA
Preparing for the PHA study sessions
Recording the study sessions
Producing the final report
We encourage interaction and delegate participation throughout the course, and
group exercises ensure that you come away with practical experience of actually
applying PHA techniques.
Price: please contact us for details
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Introduction to FMEA and Human Error Identification
2 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: In-company course only
This course is run jointly with Liv Systems, specialists in human factors.
Who should attend?
If your role involves responsibility for reliability and human factors issues, in either a
technical or non-technical capacity, then this introductory course has been designed
for you.
Why attend?
FMEA is one of the most established methods for
identifying hazards associated with equipment
faults and failures in new products and systems.
SHERPA is a widely used technique for
recognising ways in which human error may
impact on product or system performance. Used
together, FMEA and SHERPA provide a powerful
combination for analysing new product and
system designs to identify the ways in which
failures or errors may occur and to improve the
design in the light of this revealed information.
What does the course cover?
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Introduction to FMEA
o Explanation of terms, including “Failure Mode”, “Failure Cause” and
“Failure Effect”
o The principles of FMEA
o The FMEA methodology and its application
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Introduction to SHERPA
o Definition and explanation of the term “Human Error”
o The principles of Human Error Identification
o The SHERPA methodology
o The basic principles of Human Error Reduction
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: please contact us for details
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
2 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: 11 - 12 May 2015
9 - 10 November 2015
16 - 17 May 2016
14 - 15 November 2016
Who should attend?
If you're a manager or engineer looking for an overview of the FMEA technique and
an insight into how FMEA information is used, then this course is for you.
Why attend?
FMEA is one of the most established methods for identifying hazards in new plant. It
also forms the first stage of more recently developed techniques such as Reliability
Centred Maintenance (RCM) making it one of the most widely used analysis tools for
reliability or availability improvement and cost reduction.
What does the course cover?
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) methodology
Breaking down the system into sub-systems
Functional FMEA
Hardware FMEA
Reporting and documentation
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
If, in addition to FMEA, you'd also like to learn about risk considerations and
specialist techniques for determining the impact of failure modes, our 4 day course in
FMECA covers these (see page 7).
Price: £695 + VAT
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Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
4 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: 11 - 14 May 2015
9 - 12 November 2015
16 - 19 May 2016
14 - 17 November 2016
Who should attend?
If you're a reliability or safety engineer, or a specialist who is responsible for the
design of systems that require demonstrably high safety, reliability or availability,
then this course is for you.
Why attend?
FMECA is one of the most established
and powerful methods for identifying
hazards in new plant and ranking them
according to the frequency and impact of
their occurrence - it has a fundamental
role in any safety or reliability study.
FMECA gives organisations the ability to
improve performance, demonstrate
safety integrity and reduce costs.
An understanding of FMECA is essential
if you're involved in the design,
construction or operation of high capital
value plant.
What does the course cover?
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) methodology
Breaking down the system into sub-systems
Functional FMEA
Hardware FMEA
Rapid Ranking
Criticality Analysis
Parts Count
Variants of the FMEA process
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
Reporting and documentation
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: £1295 + VAT
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Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis (FTA and ETA)
5 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: 2 - 6 February 2015
25 - 29 January 2016
Who should attend?
If you have recently moved into the field of reliability or safety engineering, or you’re
a specialist who is responsible for the design, construction, operation or assessment
of systems that require demonstrably high reliability or availability, then this course is
for you.
Why attend?
Fault Tree Analysis and Event Tree Analysis
(FTA and ETA) are two of the most widely
used techniques in reliability and safety
assessment. They will give you a powerful
problem-solving methodology, their results
providing important feedback for designers
and management regarding the strengths and
weaknesses of proposed designs.
You’ll come away with a sound understanding
of how FTA and ETA can be applied and the
principles that lie behind the techniques. This
course is therefore relevant regardless of the
software system your organisation uses.
What does the course cover?
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Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis
Fault Tree symbols and methodology
Fault Tree construction
Fault Tree reduction
Fault Tree quantification
Human Factors
Dependent Failures
Event Tree Analysis
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: £1495 + VAT
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Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (ARM) Studies
5 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: In-company course only
Who should attend?
If your role involves responsibility for reliability issues, either in a technical or nontechnical capacity, then this introductory course is for you.
Why attend?
Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (ARM) Studies, also known as R&M, RAM
or RAMS, have a philosophy of progressive assurance, enabling reliability
engineering techniques to be implemented throughout the life of an asset, from
conception to disposal, more effectively than has been achieved in the past.
This course will introduce the ARM philosophy and the techniques that it uses, as
well as giving you a basic knowledge of ARM and how to integrate it into a project
life-cycle. The emphasis is on determining what analysis work needs to be done,
when to do it, and how much detail to go into.
What does the course cover?
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ARM philosophy and terminology
The ARM Plan
Reliability Block Diagrams
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Fault Tree Analysis
Maintainability issues
Communication and coordination
Reporting and documentation
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: please contact us for details
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Vital Statistics for Safety and Reliability Engineers
4 Day Course
Proposed Course Dates: 22 - 25 June 2015
20 - 23 June 2016
Who should attend?
If you want to gain an understanding of the statistical and probabilistic techniques
that are applied in safety and reliability analysis (including ILS), then this course is
for you. It is also suitable if you’re already familiar with the basic concepts but are
now looking to consolidate and enhance your safety and reliability expertise.
Why attend?
As practitioners rather than purely trainers or
academics, we offer a unique perspective on
how statistical analysis is applied in practice.
Statistical and probabilistic techniques are
widely used in safety and reliability work and
are an essential part of any quantitative
analysis in these fields of engineering. This
course will remove the mystique that often
surrounds the use of these techniques and
will explain how they are applied in practice.
By the end of this course you will have gained a good understanding of these
techniques and developed new confidence in applying them. Full practical
illustrations are given throughout the course using the wide range of statistical
functions available within Microsoft Excel.
What does the course cover?
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Statistics and probability – their meaning and relevance
Probability and statistical measures - mean and standard deviation
Probability distributions and their applications
Estimation, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals
Analysing data and quantifying uncertainty
Fitting a distribution, probability plotting, and goodness-of-fit
The Weibull distribution and why it is important
Regression analysis – estimating how cause and effect are related
Models in safety and reliability – FTA, Monte Carlo, Markov, etc.
Spares holding – how to calculate the number needed
Other useful techniques – cusum charts, extreme value distributions, nonparametric statistics, Bayesian methods, the Duane model
Engineering applications and examples are provided throughout.
Price: £1295 + VAT
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Proposed Schedule of Open Courses 2015/16
Here is our proposed programme of Open Courses for 2015/16.
Please check our website www.egertonconsulting.com prior to booking as
occasionally we may need to change some of these dates.
Once we have accepted a booking for a course, you can rest assured, except in
circumstances beyond our control, we will not cancel or change the date without your
agreement.
Date
Price1
2 – 6 February
£1495
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
2 – 6 March
£1495
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
11 – 12 May
£695
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
11 – 14 May
£1295
Vital Statistics for Safety and Reliability Engineers
22 – 25 June
£1295
28 Sept – 2 Oct
£1495
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
9 – 10 November
£695
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
9 – 12 November
£1295
25 – 29 January
£1495
29 Feb – 4 March
£1495
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
16 – 17 May
£695
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
16 – 19 May
£1295
Vital Statistics for Safety and Reliability Engineers
20 – 23 June
£1295
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
26 – 30 September
£1495
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
14 – 15 November
£695
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
14 – 17 November
£1295
Course Title
2015
Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
2016
Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
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Prices quoted exclude UK Value Added Tax (currently 20%)
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Cancellation Policy
A 75% refund will be given on any cancellation made in writing or by email at least 28 days
prior to the commencement date of the course, and otherwise at our discretion. No charge
will be made for substitutions, although please inform us of any changes. Our policy is to run
any course for which we have accepted a booking, but we must reserve the right to cancel or
reschedule any course or to change its venue if necessary. In this event our liability will be
limited to a 100% refund of the course fee.
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FOUR ways to book your Training Course with Egerton Consulting:
1. Telephone +44 (0)1666 860993
2. Website: www.egertonconsulting.com/training/
3. Email training@egertonconsulting.com
4. Post your Booking Form to:
Egerton Consulting Ltd
The Green
Minety
Malmesbury
Wiltshire
SN16 9PL
United Kingdom
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