Advanced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Course

Course Overview:

In this course, participants are trained to optimize every aspect of maintenance operations logically.

Attention is focused on maintenance management, which is more evolutionary than implementation. How does one deal with the prevalent issues in maintenance organizations and apply the right techniques for work and order system implementation? Other areas addressed in the course include how to rank work requirements, the construction of preventive maintenance schemes, and the improvement of reliability for safety and cost efficiency.

Furthermore, it looks at performance metrics such as KPIs and dashboards as well as frameworks in project management especially in the areas of maintenance management. 

Other relevant themes include how to control the adequate amounts of spare parts to ensure smooth running of business processes.

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
• Planning performance indicators
• Effectiveness performance indicators
• Cost performance indicators
• Management reports

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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