Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Workshop

Program Overview:

The maintenance of physical assets can no longer be treated just as a ‘maintenance problem’. The competitive environment in which business operates requires an integrated approach to the operational objectives of the business and the life-cycle objectives of the physical assets.

This Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Work Control program is designed to provide maintenance team with essential maintenance management skills, gain a clear understanding of their roles, and work more effectively within a team environment. Participants will gain a practical understanding and knowledge on how to achieve a world class maintenance performance.

For whom:

This course is particularly aimed at operating personnel performing in oil & gas, manufacturing as well as process and maintenance engineers. The course shall also be beneficial to other technical personnel who want to broaden their knowledge on maintenance best practices.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to: ·

• explain maintenance as a key business function;
• list the objectives and purpose of pro-active failure management;
• learn how reliability influences not only plant output, but also improves health, safety and environmental performance, resource optimization and cost improvement;
• identify planning and scheduling best practices and how these will contribute to work quality and reliability improvement;
• create and reserve forward work and use it for planning and scheduling resources; and
• use performance indicators and management reports to perform regular analysis of maintenance performance, control maintenance resources and costs, to drive continuous improvement.

Course outline:

Day 1: Modern Maintenance Management Practice in Perspective

• Maintenance in the Business Process,
• What does it look like?
• What it could look like,
• Evolution in Maintenance Management
• Reactive vs. Proactive Maintenance,
• World-Class Maintenance Management

Day 2: Maintenance Policies and Logistics Planning

• Equipment Classification and Identification
• Document Identification and Classification
• Maintenance Management Policies,
• Maintenance Work Prioritization
• Maintenance Logistics Planning

Day 3: Failure Management Programme Development

• Failure Modes, Effects and Consequences Analysis (FMEA)
• Failure Management Policies
• Application of RCM in the Development of Failure

Management Policies

• Implementing Failure Management Policies
• Corrective Maintenance Planning,
• Logistic Requirements and Planning

Day 4: Work Scheduling and Control  

• Development of Weekly Master Schedule
• Determine Resource Availability
• Determine Equipment Outage Requirement
• Management of the Forward Workload (Backlog)
• Weekly Master Schedule Implementation

Day 5: Performance Measurement, Management & Reporting

Analysis

• Information and Control,
• Management Levels and Information
• Performance Indicators,
• Workload Performance Indicators
• Planning Performance Indicators,
• Effectiveness Performance Indicators
• Cost Performance Indicators
• Management Reports

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and case studies will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.