Maintenance planning is of utmost importance in the broader context of physical asset management. However, numerous organizations continue to face challenges in effectively implementing and harnessing the advantages it offers. By gaining a comprehensive understanding of the core processes involved in this operational-level strategy, you will be able to identify any gaps in your personal skillset and within your organization. This insight will enable you to address those shortcomings and enhance your maintenance planning capabilities, ultimately leading to improved outcomes.

Course Objectives:

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 organizations today
Validate the importance of work order systems and use proven techniques for estimations and prioritization
Prepare a preventive maintenance program
Learn how reliability improves health, safety and environmental performance, cost improvement, and resource optimization
Identify planning and scheduling best practices and recognize 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 analyze 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?

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

Course Outlines:

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

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 prioritization
Maintenance logistics planning

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

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

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