Academy of Reliability Management

Equipment reliability, quality, compliance with international standards

Official courses

AI-201 | Risk Based Inspection (RBI). Risk-based inspection according to API-580 and API-581

AI-202 | Corrosion management

AI-203 | Corrosion fundamentals (NACE)

AI-204 | API RP 571- Damage mechanisms of stationary equipment in petroleum refining industry

AI-205 | API 570 - Pipeline inspection

AI-206 | Reliability management. Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)

AI-207 | Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA / FMECA)

Seminars and custom programs (on request)

International certification. Right to apply CE marking

1. Requirements of Directive 2014/68/EU regarding design, manufacture, final inspection and testing of pressure equipment.
2. Legal framework of Directive 2014/68/EU. Scope and application of the Directive for pressure equipment, EU Declaration of Conformity and CE marking.
3. Difference between marking with and without notified body participation, conformity assessment modules, essential safety requirements, risk assessment.
4. Main harmonized standards.
5. Purpose of welder qualification.
6. Basic principle of qualification.
7. Standards overview: EN ISO 9606, EN ISO 14732.
8. Welding production conformity confirmation.
9. Welding technology qualification process: EN ISO 15614, EN ISO 15613, EN ISO 14555.
10. Technical control and quality control in welding procedures.
11. Development of welding procedures.
12. International welder qualification.

1. Lean manufacturing

• Lean manufacturing philosophy.
• Introduction to certification according to standards: GOST R 56020-2014, GOST R 56404-2015, GOST R 56407-2015.
• Main methods and tools of Lean manufacturing: 5S, VSM, TPM, OEE, FIFO, FMEA, Poka-Yoke.
• Building Kanban system.
• Preparation of standardized documentation.
• Analysis of current equipment operation.
• Modern management approaches.
• Basic requirements for lean manufacturing system conformity assessment.
• Certification audit.

2. Basic qualification principle

• Product quality and competitiveness.
• Economic aspects of quality management.
• Methods of accounting, calculation, assessment and analysis of quality costs.

3. Overview of standards EN ISO 9606, EN ISO 14732

• Quality management principles.
• ISO 9000 series of standards.
• Logic of ISO 9001:2015 structure.
• Process-based management.

4. International welding technology qualification

• Meaning of process approach.
• Process identification and classification.
• Process development: planning, documenting, defining characteristics.
• Process monitoring, data analysis and improvement assignment.

5. Personnel

• Working with personnel as stakeholders.
• Dependence of personnel satisfaction and motivation on continuous improvement implementation mechanism.
• Personnel satisfaction assessment.
• Foundations of corporate culture building.
• Personnel competence and its components.
• Achieving competence.

6. Description of welding technology qualification process EN ISO 15614, EN ISO 15613, EN ISO 14555

• Procurement classification and supplier selection.
• Requirements formation, questionnaire compilation.
• Qualification audit, existing supplier audit.
• Audit organization, planning and execution.
• Criteria and assessment of observations.
• Practical audit conduct workshop.
• Audit results evaluation workshop.
• Achieving results through supplier measures and internal organizational measures.

7. Technical control and quality control in welding procedures. Development of welding procedures

• Benefits of effective risk management.
• Crisis management principles.
• ISO 31000:2018 methodology, implementation of approaches applicable to organization activities, its processes and products.
• Practical understanding of risk management process implementation methods and objectives.
• Quality management system.

1. Quality management in standards

• Study of methods for organizing customer relations.
• Determining customer needs and expectations.
• Gaining practical skills necessary for optimizing activities to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty based on company economic performance growth.
• The seminar covers requirements of international standards ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 9004:2018 regarding customer relations.

2. Training according to SMPP standard

• Gaining knowledge and skills for finding and solving management problems.
• Reviewing methodology application through examples from participating enterprises.
• Detailed study of improvement terminology.
• General concept of implementing improvements in management systems.
• Change implementation strategies.
• Risk management and prevention of recurring similar problems.
• 8D methodology.
• Fundamentals of information collection and statistical processing for decision making.

3. Social responsibility

• Social responsibility audit is conducted to reduce risks in the area of social responsibility.
• Environmental protection: compliance with environmental standards requirements, having valid permits for resource use.
• General requirements for occupational safety and industrial safety.
• Working conditions:
  • Presence of child labor.
  • Forced labor.
  • Violation of women's rights.
  • Compliance of employment contracts with RF Federal Law requirements.
  • Work schedules.
  • Timely payment of wages and bonuses.
• Business reputation assessment.