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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis for Maintenance Teams

Maintenance teams across Africa often react to failures rather than anticipating them, missing chances to design out recurring problems. This programme teaches Failure Mode and Effects Analysis as a structured team method to predict how equipment can fail, rank the risks and choose the right preventive actions. Participants leave able to facilitate an analysis workshop and turn its findings into practical maintenance tasks.

What you will be able to do

  • Explain the purpose of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in a maintenance context.
  • Break equipment into functions and identify how each function can fail.
  • Score failure modes by severity, occurrence and detection to rank risk.
  • Select preventive, predictive or design actions that address the highest risks.
  • Facilitate a structured analysis workshop with a cross functional team.
  • Convert analysis outputs into maintenance tasks and monitoring plans.

Course outline

  1. 01Failure Mode and Effects Analysis principles
  2. 02Functions, functional failures and failure modes
  3. 03Effects, causes and current controls
  4. 04Risk scoring and priority ranking
  5. 05Choosing effective mitigating actions
  6. 06Facilitating the analysis workshop
  7. 07Turning results into maintenance plans

Who should attend

Reliability engineers, maintenance planners, supervisors and technicians who want a repeatable method for anticipating and preventing equipment failures.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendar
17 to 19 Aug 2026Cairo3US$1,500
24 to 26 Aug 2026Accra3US$1,500
31 Aug to 2 Sep 2026Lusaka3US$1,500
7 to 9 Sep 2026Kigali3US$1,500
14 to 16 Sep 2026Nairobi3US$1,500
21 to 23 Sep 2026Durban3R13,000
28 to 30 Sep 2026Johannesburg3R13,000
12 to 14 Oct 2026Mauritius3US$1,500
19 to 21 Oct 2026Dubai3US$1,500
26 to 28 Oct 2026Lagos3US$1,500
2 to 4 Nov 2026Harare3US$1,500
9 to 11 Nov 2026Kampala3US$1,500
16 to 18 Nov 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500
23 to 25 Nov 2026Pretoria3R13,000
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Cape Town3R13,000
14 to 16 Dec 2026Online3US$900
21 to 23 Dec 2026Mozambique3US$1,500

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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