Course Overview

Maintenance planning, scheduling, and control are the first steps towards achieving efficient technical operations. The competitive environment in which businesses today have to survive in demands for processes that align their operational objectives with the longevity and effectiveness of its physical assets.Maintenance planning, scheduling, and control are not only about using project management software to schedule tasks, but to also ensure that all logistics required throughout the project are provided for and maintained in a proactive and cost-efficient manner.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the trainees will be aware and understanding of the following:

• 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

Who Should Attend?

• Key Operations Supervisors
• CMMS Administrator or Key Users
• Key Maintenance Support Assistants
• Maintenance Planners, Maintenance Managers Schedulers and Work Preparers
• Maintenance and Operations Professionals
• Maintenance Engineers and Supervisors

Course Contents

Module (01) 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

Module (02) Modern Maintenance Management Practice in Perspective 

• Maintenance in the business process
• Evolution in maintenance management
• Reactive vs. Proactive maintenance
• World-class maintenance management

Module (03) 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

Module (04) Maintenance Policies and Logistics Planning      

• Equipment classification and identification
• Document identification and classification
• Maintenance management policies
• Maintenance work prioritisation
• Maintenance logistics planning

Module (05) Failure Management Programme Development

• Failure Modes, Effects and Consequences
• Failure management policies
• Implementing failure management policies
• Corrective maintenance planning
• Logistic requirements planning

Module (06) 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

Module (07) 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

Module (08) 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

Module (09) 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