Maintenance planning, management and work control is critical for every successful individual and company. This comprehensive 5-day course has been designed to benefit both qualified new professionals as well as experienced professionals who might need to refresh their skills. It covers all the fundamentals of maintenance that a suitably qualified professional would be expected to carry out during his duty starting with the first steps and building up in a stair case fashion to a fully functional maintenance organization. The course is intended to introduce participants to a deep and advanced knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling and monitoring of maintenance program. A focuses are directed on basic concepts of maintenance management, establishing a preventive and predictive maintenance programs and maintenance planning and scheduling procedures and expert systems for troubleshooting. Computer applications on maintenance management, planning and scheduling will be addressed too. Emphasis on various aspects of analytical techniques which have proved valuable in maintenance planning, scheduling, critical path analysis, priority assessment, replacement decision, maintenance sequencing, queuing decision, task assignment & allocation, the managing maintenance spare parts and the application of CMMS.

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Gain and apply an advanced knowledge on maintenance planning and management techniques
• Classify the types of maintenance that includes reactive time based, condition based, proactive and reliability based maintenance
• Determine the applications used in maintenance
• Perform maintenance planning and scheduling
• Recognize and understand the organization structure and policies
• Use methods and programming evaluation review techniques
• Learn on how to use and apply CMMS

This course is highly recommended to all mechanical maintenance engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management. This course is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. The program is highly interactive with many discussion and computer application practice sessions.

Day 1:

• Understanding of maintenance philosophy
• Classify the types of Maintenance

• Reactive, time based
• Condition based
• Proactive
• Reliability based maintenance

• Be familiar with maintenance decision and computer applications
• Build and implement a preventive maintenance program

Day 2:

• Applying the predictive approach
• Use computer applications in maintenance experience documentation and expert system
• Develop maintenance key performance evaluation and indicators
• Perform maintenance planning and scheduling

Day 3:

• Understand maintenance organization structure and policies
• Decide the best time for equipment replacement
• Optimize maintenance cost
• Apply life cycle costing

Day 4:

• Allocate maintenance work
• Define the optimum maintenance sequencing
• Manage maintenance spare parts and logistics
• Use and apply the critical path method and programming evaluation review technique

Day 5:

• Perform time trade off
• Justify resource constrain
• Apply queuing theory
• Use computerized maintenance management systems

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

·         Discussion

·         Presentation

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session