Course description
Maintenance planning plays a critical role within the overall physical asset management processes yet, many organizations are still struggling to get it implemented properly and reap the benefits that it brings. By understanding the fundamental processes behind this operational level strategy, you will be able to identify what is missing in your personal skillset and in your organization.
As a result of your participation in this Advanced Maintenance Planning training course, you will also identify the responsibilities you will need to embrace in order to establish an effective maintenance planning function.
This training course places the emphasis on the key processes and techniques of maintenance planning that are necessary to sustain the reliability of our assets. Whether you are new to maintenance planning or you have been doing maintenance planning scheduling for a while, this training program will give you new knowledge, insights, and skills that are of great value to your maintenance career and income earning potential.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Advanced Maintenance Planning training course, is ideal for :
- Maintenance Planner
- Planning engineers
- Maintenance Supervisor
- Maintenance Manager
- Maintenance Engineer
- Operation Engineer
- Operation Coordinator
- Production Supervisor
- Reliability Engineer
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this Advanced Maintenance Planning training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the need for and purpose of proactive maintenance management
- Understand why maintenance is a key business function
- Study the major challenges faced by maintenance organisations today
- Validate the importance of work order systems and use proven techniques for estimations and prioritisation
- Prepare a preventive maintenance program
- Learn how reliability improves health, safety and environmental performance, cost improvement, and resource optimisation
- Identify planning and scheduling best practices and recognise how they can contribute to the quality of an entire project
- Use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) s to evaluate and enhance maintenance performance
- Use KPIs, dashboards and reports to analyse maintenance performance, control resources and costs, and ensure continuous improvement
- Apply project management frameworks and techniques to effectively manage key maintenance activities and stoppages
- Establish an understanding of how to maintain the optimal stock levels of spare parts to ensure operational continuity
Training Course Content
Day 1
Objectives of Maintenance
- Definition of maintenance and asset management
- Challenges and objectives of maintenance
- The modern maintenance strategy
- Maintenance windows
- Maintenance methods
- Types of maintenance
- Classification of roles in the maintenance
- Customer service in maintenance
Modern Maintenance Management Practice in Perspective
- Maintenance in the business process
- Evolution in maintenance management
- Reactive vs. Proactive maintenance
- World-class maintenance management
Day 2
Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- What is preventive maintenance?
- The importance of implementing a PM program
- Establishing schedules
- Breaking a facility into logical parts
- Developing an equipment list
- Developing equipment manuals
- Setting up inventory
- Understanding risks associated with a PM program
Maintenance Policies and Logistics Planning
- Equipment classification and identification
- Document identification and classification
- Maintenance management policies
- Maintenance work prioritisation
- Maintenance logistics planning
Day 3
Failure Management Programme Development
- Failure Modes, Effects and Consequences
- Failure management policies
- Implementing failure management policies
- Corrective maintenance planning
- Logistic requirements planning
Work Scheduling and Control
- Development of weekly master schedule
- Determine resource availability
- Determine equipment outage requirement
- Management of the forward workload(backlog)
- Weekly master schedule implementation
Day 4
Planning, Scheduling, and Control of Major Maintenance Wos and Shutdowns
- The unique challenge of maintenance shutdowns
- Importance of a clear scope definition
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Methods for building an effective maintenance database
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Work order crashing
- Resource scheduling and levelling
Performance Measurement, Reporting and Analysis
- Information and control
- Management levels and information
- Performance indicators
- Workload performance indicators
- Planning performance indicators
- Effectiveness performance indicators
- Cost performance indicators
- Management reports
Day 5
The Role of Planning in Performance Improvement
- Maintenance as a business process
- Drawing learning from recurring maintenance tasks
- Reviewing planned maintenance
- Dealing with the productivity challenge
- Refining maintenance policies
- Capturing learning from inspection work
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