Approved Maintenance Plan

Approved Maintenance Plan

Methodology:

• Interactive techniques, practical training, concise presentations, individual and group exercises based on real maintenance scenarios.
• Participants undergo a test on the final day to assess their understanding and knowledge.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply the latest concepts and techniques for effective maintenance planning, scheduling, and control.
• Use project management techniques to manage key maintenance and shutdown activities.
• Understand how to maintain optimal inventory levels of spare parts for operational availability.
• Prepare the appropriate key performance indicators to evaluate and improve maintenance operations.
• Select capital budgeting techniques to assess capital maintenance expenditures.
• Establish connections and communicate with others to achieve desired goals.

Target Audience:

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

Program Content:

1. Placing planning in context
2. Modern maintenance strategy
3. Maintenance as a business process
4. Feasibility study for planning
5. Financial case advantages
6. Scope challenge
7. Enhancing preventive maintenance
8. Value of improving maintenance efficiency
9. Operational benefits
10. Benefits of having a maintenance team
11. Improving safety performance
12. Different planning levels
13. Pitfalls of traditional planning operations
14. Role of maintenance planner
15. Importance of maintenance and asset management
16. Objectives and types of maintenance
17. Evolution of the maintenance function
18. Planning process
19. Types of maintenance
20. Clarifying roles in maintenance operations
21. Defining a maintenance request system
22. Establishing priorities before making requests
23. Developing a preventive maintenance program
24. Preventive maintenance risks

Planning Major Maintenance and Shutdowns:

1. Unique challenges during shutdowns
2. Excellence model for shutdown preparation
3. Work areas and activities
4. Work breakdown structure (WBS) requirements
5. Preparation and use of maintenance standards
6. Planning and scheduling constraints
7. Critical path method
8. Forward and backward scheduling
9. Workforce planning
10. Resource planning charts
11. Planning for strategic preparation and work

Control of Maintenance Activities:

1. Types of control and document control
2. Use of key performance indicators (KPIs) in maintenance
3. Data sources for KPIs
4. Examples of maintenance KPIs

Leading Maintenance Performance:

1. Developing a learning methodology from repetitive maintenance tasks
2. Refining maintenance policies
3. Learning from planned maintenance review
4. Gaining knowledge from inspection work
5. Improving the scope
6. The 3R process
7. Dealing with production challenges
8. Utilizing workforce and time tool
9. Conducting the connected DILO process
10. Importance of measuring production
11. Challenge planning – What’s the next step?
12. The 5T’s
13. SMED analysis

Dealing with Maintenance, Management, and User Personnel:

1. Importance of communication skills
2. Potential communication barriers
3. Causes of conflicts
4. Effective conflict management
5. Conflict management styles