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RMI Course Overview

Equip your people. Deliver results.

To meet challenging business targets, a key focus area is to manage the total cost of ownership by increasing machine reliability and uptime. To leverage your invested capital in machinery and equipment it is essential to continuously develop your people as you increase efficiency and productivity

SKF provides an array of competence development activities in a unique learning environment for plant management, engineering staff, maintenance personnel and operators. SKF Reliability Maintenance Institute (RMI) course schedule combines all public courses scheduled throughout Canada and the United States.

While specific course topics vary widely, RMI training courses are organized to match the following five facets of the SKF Asset Efficiency Optimization (AEO) workflow process:

 

Maintenance Strategy (MS):
Relates to methods and technologies used to develop a maintenance strategy. Courses emphasize a technically and financially sound maintenance strategy developed to match business goals.

 

Work Identification (WI):
Relates to methods and technologies used to identify maintenance work. Course topics include preventive maintenance, predictive technologies, information integration and decision support systems, and work order request generation.

 

Work Execution (WE):
Relates to methods and technologies used to complete maintenance tasks. Course topics include precision maintenance, best practices in lubrication, installation, precision alignment, balancing, and postmaintenance testing.

 

Living Program (LP):
Relates to methods and technologies used to evaluate maintenance work and strategy, thereby "closing the loop" and making maintenance a continual improvement process. Course topics include root cause analysis, reliability analysis, maintenance work close-out, machine redesign, and technology upgrades.

 

SmartStart™ On-site Product Start-up Training:
On-site product start-up service that focuses on a specific product or system, designed to get that product up and running, your employees trained, and your program implemented quickly and effectively.

 

Design Engineering (OEM):
Recommended for design engineers directly responsible for machine design incorporating rolling element bearings at OEM facilities or users interested in optimizing performance in existing machinery.

 

Environmental, Health and Safety:
Recommended for anyone interested in, and responsible for accident prevention, safety programs, productivity and reliability at any and all levels. This course is a comprehensive overview of key occupational safety and compliance standards, and its material is determined largely by OSHA.

 

SKF Reliability Maintenance Institute On-line
Learn at your own place and pace with SKF RMI On-line courses. These e-learning courses cover a wide range of product and technology topics and complement the courses taught by our specialist training staff. RMI On-line is available as a subscription package.

 
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