Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control

Upon completing this Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control course successfully, 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
Course Content
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 prioritisation
• 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

Methodology
The training methodology integrates lectures, interactive discussions, collaborative group exercises, and illustrative examples. Participants will acquire a blend of theoretical insights and hands-on practical experience, emphasizing the application of learned techniques. This approach ensures that attendees return to their professional environments equipped with both the competence and self-assurance to effectively implement the acquired skills in their responsibilities.

DATE:

1ST BATCH:        6th – 9th May, 2025        

2ND BATCH:       18th – 21th Nov,2025