Strategic Maintenance Planning

Introduction

Maintenance planning is a cornerstone of operational success and is vital for achieving a world-class enterprise. In this course, you will explore how an effective maintenance organization and strategy are integral to the overall mission of high-performance operations. Rooted in business goals, maintenance strategy must not be viewed in isolation but as a crucial component of a comprehensive approach to organizational excellence. Through this course, you will gain insights into aligning maintenance practices with business objectives, ensuring seamless integration with other functions, and driving operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Course Objectives

• Gain an understanding of the critical contribution to be made by maintenance to the achievement of business objectives.
• Learn how to establish a strategic framework effective maintenance management.
• Understand the roles, processes, and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness.
• Learn to establish parameters for the measurement of management and technical performance on all organizational levels.
• Improve overall equipment performance, while ensuring long term asset health.

Course Outlines

Day 1: Maintenance Objectives and Strategy

• Changes of relevance to Maintenance.
• Role of Maintenance in Modern Business.
• Reducing Costs and Improving Performance.
• What is the true Downtime Cost?
• Maintenance Cost and Value.
• Bottom-line Benefits.
• Maintenance evolution - history and modern thinking.
• Brief Historical Overview of Maintenance.
• Maintenance Types.
• Maintenance Plan.
• World-Class Reliability and Maintenance.

Day 2: World-Class Standards - Comparing your Plant with The Best

• Benchmarking and Maintenance Performance Assessment.
• Maintenance Self-Assessment.
• Managing and Measuring progress to Excellence.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness.

Day 3: Implementing New Management Approaches

• Failure Management Programme (RCM).
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
• Life-Cycle Costing.
• Getting the best from your CMMS.
• Computerized Maintenance Management.
• Why CMMS Implementation Fail.

Day 4: Optimising Maintenance Organisation

• Operations Excellence.
• Operations + Maintenance = Production.
• Can Operations Manage Maintenance?
• A Driving Lesson for Operations and Maintenance.
• 70/30 Phenomenon.

Day 5: Contract Maintenance

• Maintenance Management Legends.
• A Framework for Achieving Best Practice in Maintenance.
• Case Studies.