This course is designed to build competency in maintenance planning and scheduling. The techniques that participants will learn in this course will allow for effective planning and scheduling of maintenance resources.

 The course covers all the fundamentals and advanced methods and applications that a suitably qualified professional would use in carrying out fully functional plant maintenance. In summary, the course provides a step-by-step practical guide to best practices of maintenance planning and scheduling that will essentially reduce maintenance costs and deliver maximum business benefits.

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Differentiate between maintenance policies and how to integrate
• Effective use of condition monitoring technologies
• Understand the different tools of root cause failure analysis to improve the reliability
• Understand the implementation and use of the Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and the Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP) as tools for Maintenance Planning and scheduling
• Use MS Project and Primavera P6 software as tool for Turnaround/Shutdown/Outage
• Understand the maintenance assessment techniques using KPI's & Benchmark & Audit
• Understand how to prepare the maintenance budget and develop cost control
• Understand how to control the inventory to make the spare parts available for maintenance.

This highly interactive training course will benefit anyone responsible for maintenance, who wishes to build competency in maintenance planning and scheduling to improve plant performance. This includes:

• Maintenance Engineer/ Planner/ Schedulers/ Supervisors/ Managers
• Plant Engineer/ Manager
• Operation Engineer/ Manager
• Material and Storeroom Engineer/ Manager
• Production Engineer/ Manager
• Mechanical Engineer/ Manager

• Power-Point presentations
• Handouts
• User group discussions and practices on case studies
• Videos

Day 1: Maintenance Policies & Techniques

• Concepts & Principles
•  Maintenance Objective Setting
•  Organization & People Enablers
•  Maintenance Policies (PM & PdM & CM )
•  Case Study for RTF & PM
•  Techniques of PdM 
•  Advanced Maintenance Policies (RBI, RCM, TPM)
•  The Levels of Reliability Excellence
•  Criticality analysis
•  Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Cycle
•  Case Study How to calculate Manpower Size & Maintenance Cost
•  Develop an effective Planning Programs
•  Root Cause Analysis

Day 2 Tools for Maintenance scheduling (CMMS & ERP)

•  Overview on CMMS
•  Case Study Maximo function and Master data
•  Overview on ERP
•  Case Study SAP function and Master data
•  Creating and Managing Work orders
•  How to utilize CMMS & ERP in: -
•   Asset Management & Work Management & Planning
•  Understand the Failure Code Hierarchy 
•  Overview on Failure classes & problem & Cause & Remedy

Day 3 Major Maintenance (Turnaround/Shutdown/Outage Practices)

• Different between Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage
• TA & SD Phases
• Initiation phase
• Case Study how to prepare scope of work
• Planning & Scheduling phase
• Case Study TA plan using MS-Project
• Case Study Primavera P6 details functions
• Execution & Compilation phases
• Case Study Progress Report & close out report

Day 4 Maintenance Assessments 

• Audits
• Benchmarking
• Goal setting
• Action Plan
• Performance management
• Monitoring (KPI’s)
• Case Studies
• Continuous improvement

Day 5   Contracts & Spare Parts & Budget Management

• Contract Types & constrains 
• Workshop to calculate EOQ& Reorder level
• Budget Management & Cost reports 

A RECTUS attendance certificate will be awarded to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total course duration.