Enhanced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Introduction:

Maintenance is essential for boosting business profitability by improving equipment productivity, product quality, safety, health, environmental sustainability, and reducing production costs. Global maintenance practices ensure operational efficiency and plant profitability, along with additional benefits such as enhanced customer experience, increased employee engagement, and improved supplier relationships.

Effective maintenance planning is crucial for successful operations. A well-organized maintenance strategy is central to achieving a world-class enterprise. Maintenance must be aligned with business performance and objectives to be integrated into high-performance operations alongside other processes.

Business objectives create both organizational and technical goals, and maintenance strategy focuses on integrating technical and managerial processes across all levels of the organization. This strategy should incorporate the best available technology, practices, and processes to meet the organization’s business goals.

Participants in this advanced maintenance planning and scheduling training will be equipped with the tools and knowledge to build strategies that define processes, procedures, and practices necessary for achieving optimal maintenance management. This will ensure the right investment in new assets and minimize operational costs for existing assets.

Objectives:

After completing this advanced maintenance planning and scheduling training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the significance of maintenance in achieving business objectives.
• Develop a strategic plan for better maintenance management.
• Assess organizational functions, activities, and procedures.
• Establish criteria for evaluating managers and technical specialists across all levels.
• Enhance equipment performance and ensure long-term asset health.

Training Methodology:

• Conducting workshops
• Using case studies
• Engaging in exercises
• Group participation and discussions
• Simulation-based scenarios
• Expert presentations
• Problem-solving activities
• Analysis of real-world cases

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Maintenance Objectives and Strategy

• Key maintenance challenges
• Business perception of maintenance
• Cost reduction and performance improvement
• Downtime cost analysis
• Cost-benefit analysis of maintenance
• Historical evolution of maintenance practices
• Types of maintenance
• Maintenance scheduling
• World-class maintenance and reliability

Unit 2: World-Class Standards – Benchmarking Performance

• Benchmarking maintenance performance
• Self-assessment of maintenance performance
• Progress towards state-of-the-art practices
• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

Unit 3: Implementing New Management Approaches

• Failure management program (RCM)
• Total productive maintenance (TPM)
• Life-cycle costing
• Maximizing the benefits of CMMS
• Common reasons for CMMS implementation failure

Unit 4: Optimizing Maintenance Organization

• Operations excellence
• Integrating operations and maintenance for production
• Responsibility of operations in maintenance management
• Lessons for driving operations and maintenance collaboration
• The 70/30 phenomenon
• Contract maintenance options
• Debunking maintenance management myths

Unit 5: Maintenance Planning and Control

• Maintenance workflow processes
• Work requests and work orders
• Work planning and scheduling
• Backlog management
• Resource management
• Spare parts and materials management
• Maintenance master budgeting
• Capital budgeting
• Proactive maintenance initiatives
• Asset replacement analysis
• Maintenance operating budget
• Encouraging innovation and creativity in maintenance

Conclusion:

Participants may pursue maintenance planning and scheduling certification to leverage the advantages of advanced maintenance planning, thereby sustaining more efficient practices throughout their organizations.