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Predictive Maintenance and Digital Twin Technologies

Condition monitoring programmes usually collect more data than anybody acts on, and the gap is rarely the sensors: it is that nobody defined what reading would trigger which decision. This course closes that gap. Delegates work through failure modes and which ones actually give warning, selecting monitoring techniques to match, and vibration, thermography, oil analysis and ultrasound on what each detects. Alarm limits and setting them from equipment history follow. Data collection, storage and the analysis that turns readings into a remaining life estimate are covered. Digital twins are addressed honestly: what a model can predict, what it needs to be fed, and where the value is real. Integrating findings into the maintenance plan and the work order system is covered. The course closes on proving the programme paid for itself and on sustaining it once the initial enthusiasm passes.

Course objectives

  • Identify which failure modes give usable warning
  • Match monitoring techniques to those failure modes
  • Apply vibration, thermography, oil analysis and ultrasound
  • Set alarm limits from equipment history
  • Turn readings into a remaining life estimate
  • Judge what a digital twin can and cannot predict
  • Feed findings into the maintenance plan and prove the payback

Who should attend

  • Reliability and maintenance engineers
  • Plant digitalisation and automation specialists
  • Maintenance managers exploring predictive programmes
  • Instrumentation and control engineers
  • Asset performance management analysts

Course outline

  1. 01Data nobody acts on
  2. 02Failure modes that give warning
  3. 03Selecting monitoring techniques
  4. 04Vibration and thermography
  5. 05Oil analysis and ultrasound
  6. 06Alarm limits from history
  7. 07Remaining life estimation
  8. 08Digital twins, integration and payback

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Predictive Maintenance and Digital Twin Technologies
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
23 to 25 December 2026Nairobi, KenyaClassroomUSD 995 per delegateRegister Now
6 to 8 January 2027OnlineOnlineR6,500 per delegateRegister Now
15 to 17 February 2027Maseru, LesothoClassroomR14,950 per delegateRegister Now
22 to 24 February 2027Gaborone, BotswanaClassroomR14,950 per delegateRegister Now

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