This program initially looks at all of the core maintenance management disciplines that support effective work planning, scheduling, and work control. The second week builds on the foundation knowledge introduced during the first week by introducing participants to Maintenance Auditing and Benchmarking. These key tools can be used to ensure the core disciplines are maintained, to drive improvement, identify best practices, and assist with the formulation of strategies.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Identify planning best practices and key Elements for taking action on them
Understand how world-class organizations solve common planning problems
Evaluate their practices compared to those of others
Improve the use of their information and communication tools
Improve productivity through the use of better, more timely information
Create and preserve lead-time in work management and use it for planning and scheduling resources
Improve consistency and reliability of asset information
Achieve more productive turnarounds
Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
Audit their maintenance operations
Learn how to conduct a benchmarking study
Use the results to develop an improvement strategy
Establish Auditing and Benchmarking as a key element of the maintenance strategy
Professionals who are involved in maintenance planning, scheduling, and work control, including planners and users of CMMS. Also, any stakeholders in the Work Planning function would benefit from attending his program.