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Defect Elimination and Bad Actor Management

Every plant has a handful of equipment items that fail again and again, quietly consuming a large share of the maintenance budget. This programme shows maintenance and reliability teams how to find these bad actors, run structured defect elimination, and prove the results in downtime and cost terms. Delegates leave with a repeatable method suited to African operations with limited resources.

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What you will be able to do

  • Explain how chronic defects erode plant reliability and budget.
  • Rank equipment to identify the true bad actors from failure data.
  • Run structured defect elimination on selected problem equipment.
  • Distinguish quick fixes from lasting engineering and process solutions.
  • Measure and report the downtime and cost benefit of defect elimination.
  • Sustain a defect elimination routine within the maintenance team.

Course outline

  1. 01Chronic defects and their cost
  2. 02Bad actor identification from data
  3. 03Structured defect elimination method
  4. 04Cross functional problem solving
  5. 05Engineering versus quick fixes
  6. 06Measuring and reporting benefit
  7. 07Sustaining defect elimination

Who should attend

Reliability engineers, maintenance engineers, planners and supervisors driving reliability improvement on plant and equipment.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 30 Sep 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Closed
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
12 to 14 Oct 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
13 to 15 Oct 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Online3US$900Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
24 to 26 Nov 2026Durban3R13,000Register
25 to 27 Nov 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Dec 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
8 to 10 Dec 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Dec 2026Harare3US$1,500Register

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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