Course Overview

During the recent decades, maintenance planning and scheduling function has rightfully taken a great amount of attention and it has proved that it can hugely improve asset management productivity and performance. Hence, it is essential for word-class organizations to continue their effort to further develop and improve the day-to-day planning and scheduling activities, work processes and working culture.

In this course, you will learn about planning and scheduling functions and how they can be part of an overall excellence model. Planners and schedulers will gain a deeper understanding of their works beyond the routine CMMS work order daily transactions. Meanwhile, you will learn about a typical step-by-step work process of the planning and scheduling for maintenance work orders. The course will outline an integrated, inclusive work process and covers planning, scheduling and execution activities.

You will also take a closer look at the maintenance KPIs and how these metrics can reveal the health of the maintenance planning and execution functions, which in turn will enable the maintenance organization for a continuous improvement cycle.

Target Audience

This course has been designed for team leaders, maintenance managers, operation managers, maintenance planners and schedulers, maintenance execution team leaders, asset reliability system engineers, and maintenance and operation engineers.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will learn about:

  • Role of the Planner in a world-class organization;
  • Maintenance work order workflow and its main steps;
  • Planning work process and dependencies;
  • Plant Outage Management techniques;
  • Maintenance performance measurement tools;
  • The role of planning and scheduling in the management of physical assets;
  • Benefits of maintenance planning and repairs;
  • Six important principles in maintenance planning;
  • Six important principles in scheduling maintenance and repairs;
  • Planning and scheduling KPIs;
  • Management of materials and spare parts;
  • Management of accumulated work orders; and
  • The role of maintenance management computer systems (CMMS).