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Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control

Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control Training Courses in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur
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Why Attend

Maximizing assets availability and reliability with the optimal cost are two conflicting objectives that each maintenance department needs to achieve. Maintenance planning and scheduling is the first step needed to assist you in achieving these objectives. However maintenance planning and scheduling is not only about using project management software to schedule tasks. Beside planning and scheduling activities the planner needs to ensure that all logistics are provided for. The planner will also need to be engaged in financial evaluation of maintenance initiatives. Once the planning is done right, the next step will be to ensure that all the work orders are executed as per the plan and in compliance with all Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) guidelines as well as company policies and procedures. In this course various techniques will be discussed that will assist you in due course to plan, schedule and control all your maintenance work orders for maximum effectiveness.

Course Methodology

The course uses a mix of interactive and hands-on techniques. Beside the brief presentations by the consultant and the participants, the thrust will be on real life work related situations to develop maintenance schedules for preventive and breakdown jobs, calculate re-order points and optimal quantities of spare parts, evaluate maintenance initiatives, and develop the right maintenance KPIs.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Explain the challenges and objectives facing maintenance organizations today
  • Demonstrate the importance of work order systems and use techniques for time estimations and priority assignments
  • Prepare a preventive maintenance program
  • Apply project management techniques to effectively manage major maintenance activities and shut downs
  • Use capital budgeting techniques to evaluate maintenance capital expenditures
  • Demonstrate understanding of how to maintain the optimal stock levels of spare parts to ensure operational continuity
  • Prepare the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) s to evaluate and improve performance in maintenance

Target Audience

Managers, supervisors and planners responsible for maintenance planning, scheduling and control activities.

Target Competencies

  • Maintenance theory and practice
  • Maintenance work processes
  • Project management
  • Financial evaluation
  • Planning and logistics theory and practice
  • Performance management
  • Adaptability

Note

PLUS Specialty Training is recognized by the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) as an approved provider of continuing education and training aligned with key subject areas related to reliability and physical asset management

This course gives SMRP members 30 hours of professional development units.

Associations

SMRP (Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals) : The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) is a nonprofit professional society formed by practitioners to advance the reliability and physical asset management industry and to create leaders in the field. SMRP provides unparalleled value for individual practitioners looking to expand their knowledge and skills in maintenance and reliability and build more business connections with other practitioners. SMRP is the premier asset management resource for companies looking to improve their processes and procedures. As an SMRP Approved Provider, Meirc PLUS Specialty Training is recognized for best-in-class continuing education training courses in reliability and physical asset management.

Location & Date

23 - 27 Jul, 2017
Kuala Lumpur
English
Renaissance Kuala Lumpur
26 - 30 Nov, 2017
Dubai
English
Novotel Al Barsha
Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue and trainer.

Fees: US$

Per participant
US$ 4,600
(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)
Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Course Outline

  • 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 maintenance
    • Customer service in maintenance
  • The work order system
    • Purpose of the Work Order (WO) system
    • Information collected on a WO
    • Job estimating methods
    • Prioritizing maintenance work orders
  • 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
  • Planning and scheduling of major maintenance WOS and shutdowns
    • The unique challenge of maintenance shutdowns
      • Importance of a clear Work Order (WO) scope definition
    • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    • Methods for building an effective maintenance database
    • Critical Path Method (CPM)
    • Work order crashing
    • Resource scheduling and leveling
  • Planning and controlling maintenance materials
    • Identification of inventory costs
    • Considerations in inventory decisions
    • How much to order: Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
    • When to order (setting min and max levels)
  • Controlling maintenance work
    • Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
    • Backlog indices
    • Schedule compliance indices
    • PM and emergency indices
    • Generic maintenance indicators
  • The role of planning and scheduling in Performance Improvement
    • Maintenance as a business process
    • How scheduled maintenance can lock in waste and cost
    • Drawing learning from recurring maintenance tasks
    • Reviewing planned maintenance
    • Dealing with the productivity challenge
    • Refining maintenance policies
    • Capturing learning from inspection work

Facilitator

Laurie Dummett

Laurie Dummett is an award winning consultant and trainer with over 25 years experience in maintenance. He has worked across five continents, in a wide variety of environments from the world’s largest oil refinery to a small bottling plant. Laurie has 10 years of maintenance management experience in the process industry, so brings a very practical approach to training. He moved into consulting with ABB Eutech as their global maintenance specialist where he led maintenance best practice panels, delivered a wide range of maintenance improvement projects and trained other consultants.

Laurie founded his own consultancy, in 2002 to focus on maintenance improvement and best of the best methodologies. As part of this, he developed a range of maintenance “models of excellence” with inputs from authors, international lecturers and some of the world’s leading consultants and operators.

Laurie remains close to the industry and continues to help operating companies, testing and refining his maintenance models in the process. His work in maintenance improvement has been recognized as best-in-class winning prestigious awards such as the UK Chemicals Industry Association national award for Excellence in Engineering.