Course in Maintenance Planning
Build An Effective Planning System and A Competent Team
Course Overview
Whether you are new to maintenance planning or an experienced professional, this Maintenance Planning training course equips you with the essential knowledge, insights, and skills to enhance your career.
Maintenance planning is a cornerstone of effective physical asset management, yet many organizations struggle to implement it fully and realize its benefits. This course provides a deep understanding of operational-level strategies, enabling participants to identify gaps in their personal competencies and organizational practices, and apply best practices to optimize asset reliability and performance. Participants will also gain clarity on their roles and responsibilities within a high-performing maintenance planning function.The course emphasizes the key processes and techniques required to sustain asset reliability, including safety, efficiency, and operational continuity.
This training course highlights:
- Foundations of an efficient maintenance planning function
- Object-based approaches to programmed maintenance development
- Planning work for safety, quality, and efficiency
- Scheduling with operational continuity in mind
- Bridging the gap between operations and maintenance scheduling
- Developing concise performance indicator reports to drive improvement
- Eliminating equipment defects through detection, planning, scheduling, and execution
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Configure and maintain master data to support asset maintenance
- Facilitate development and implementation of programmed maintenance
- Develop task plans and procedures aligned with safety, quality, and efficiency standards
- Initiate and coordinate logistics to enable backlog work execution
- Prepare work schedules for upcoming periods in consultation with stakeholders
- Generate performance indicator reports to identify and address problem areas
Course Audience
This course combines instructor-led sessions, interactive discussions, and practical exercises to ensure knowledge retention and skill application. Each participant receives a laptop preloaded with case studies, templates, and practical exercises, which remain available after the course for ongoing reference, research, and implementation.
Course Methodology
This course is suitable for professionals across maintenance and operations functions, including:
- Maintenance Planners
- Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
- Planning Engineers
- Maintenance Supervisors and Managers
- Team Leaders in Maintenance and Operations
- Technical Support Staff
Course Outline
Day 1: Foundations of a Modern Maintenance Management System
- The Asset Healthcare Model
- Asset Master Data Management
- Organization Master Data
- Maintenance Logistics Planning
- Practical Exercises and Discussion
Day 2: Programmed Maintenance Development and Planning
- Criticality Grading of Assets
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Task Selection Criteria and Tools for Programmed Maintenance
- CMMS Task Plans and Work Orders
- Corrective Maintenance Task Procedures
- Practical Exercises and Discussion
Day 3: Work Management
- Work Management Process Model
- Defect Reporting and Notifications
- Backlog Control and Prioritization
- Capacity Planning and Resource Allocation
- Schedule Preparation in Stakeholder Consensus
- Practical Exercises and Discussion
Day 4: Shutdown and Turnaround Management
- Network Planning and Critical Path Scheduling
- Resource Profiling
- Resource Leveling and Optimization
- Tracking and Controlling Shutdown and Turnaround Progress
- Practical Exercises and Discussion
Day 5: Performance Management
- Setting Up Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Data Sources
- Work Management Performance Indicators
- Asset Maintenance Effectiveness Metrics
- Cost Control and Planning Performance Indicators
- Practical Exercises and Discussion
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