Course Objectives
Certified Maintenance Planner - Virtual Learning
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the latest concepts and techniques needed to effectively plan, schedule and control maintenance activities
- Use project management techniques to manage major maintenance activities and shut downs
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to maintain the optimal stock levels of spare parts to ensure operational availability
- Prepare the right maintenance KPIs to evaluate and improve the performance of critical maintenance processes in their department
- Select capital budgeting techniques to evaluate maintenance capital expenditures
- Relate and communicate with others to achieve the desired goals
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
- Planning and logistics theory and practice
- Performance management
- Financial evaluation
- Influencing and communicating
Course Outline
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Putting planning in context
- The modern maintenance strategy
- Maintenance as a business process
- The business case for planning
- The financial benefits case
- The scope challenge
- Optimising maintenance frequency
- The value of improving maintenance efficiency
- Benefits for operations
- Benefits for the maintenance team
- Safety performance improvement
- The different levels of planning
- The pitfalls of traditional planning processes
- Role of the maintenance planner
- Importance of maintenance and asset management
- Objectives and types of maintenance
- Evolution of the maintenance function
- The planning process
- Types of maintenance
- Clarification of roles in maintenance
- Defining the work order system
- Setting priorities to work orders
- Establishing a preventive maintenance program
- Preventive maintenance risks
- Planning major maintenance work and shutdowns
- The unique challenge of shutdowns
- A model of excellence of shutdown preparation
- Scope of work and activities
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) requirements
- Setting and using maintenance standards
- Planning and scheduling constraints
- The critical path method
- Forward and backward scheduling
- Manpower planning
- Resource planning histograms
- Planning the preparation and strategic work
- Controlling maintenance work
- Types of control and control documentation
- The use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that count in maintenance
- Sources of data for KPIs
- Examples of maintenance KPIs
- Driving maintenance performance
- Drawing learning from recurring maintenance tasks
- Refining maintenance policies
- Learning from reviewing planned maintenance
- Capturing learning from inspection work
- Scope optimisation
- The 3R’s process
- Dealing with the productivity challenge
- Labour utilisation and tool time
- The driven DILO process
- The importance of measuring productivity
- Challenge planning – the next step?
- The 5T’s
- SMED analysis
- Dealing with maintenance colleagues, management and users
- The importance of communication skills
- Possible communication barriers
- Reasons we face conflict
- Managing conflicts effectively
- Styles in managing conflict