INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Mastering the principles of maintenance planning is essential for professionals at every stage of their careers. Whether you are beginning your journey in maintenance management or seeking to refine your existing expertise, the Maintenance Planning training course offers the critical knowledge, practical insights, and industry-relevant skills needed to advance your professional capabilities.
Maintenance planning serves as a vital component within the broader framework of physical asset management. However, many organizations continue to face challenges in fully implementing these processes and realizing their potential benefits. Through the Maintenance Planning training course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the operational strategies that underpin effective maintenance planning. This training course enables individuals to identify personal and organizational gaps, equipping them to apply best practices for sustained improvement. Participants will also develop a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities within a successful maintenance planning function.
The KC Academy Maintenance Planning training course focuses on key processes and methodologies required to enhance asset reliability and operational efficiency, including:
- Establishing a strong foundation for an effective planning function
- Utilizing an object-based approach to programmed maintenance development
- Planning maintenance activities with a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency
- Scheduling work while maintaining operational continuity
- Integrating operations and maintenance for seamless scheduling
- Designing concise, one-page performance indicator reports to drive continuous improvement
- Detecting and eliminating equipment defects through structured maintenance planning and execution
COURSE DETAILS
Objectives
By completing the Maintenance Planning training course, participants will be able to:
- Establish master data frameworks to effectively support asset maintenance operations
- Lead the development and integration of programmed maintenance initiatives
- Create detailed task plans and procedures that meet stringent safety, quality, and performance standards
- Coordinate the acquisition of logistics and resources to address backlog maintenance activities
- Prepare comprehensive work schedules through effective stakeholder collaboration
- Generate performance indicator-based reports that highlight operational inefficiencies and areas for improvement
Training Methodology
This Maintenance Planning training course is delivered by means of a combination of instructor-led topic areas and class discussions. This Maintenance Engineering training course is further enhanced by the use of case studies, examples and practical exercises that are pre-loaded onto a laptop for each delegate. The templates, case studies, examples and exercises are subsequently available to each delegate after the course as a reference for further study, research or practice. This ensures a high level of knowledge and skill retention.
Who should Attend?
This KC Academy Maintenance Planning training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Planners
- Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
- Planning Engineers
- Maintenance Supervisors
- Maintenance Engineers
- Maintenance Team Leaders and Managers
- Operations Team Leaders and Managers
- Technical Support Staff
DAILY AGENDA
Day 1: The Building Blocks of a Modern Maintenance Management System
- The ‘Asset Healthcare Model’
- Asset Master Data
- Organisation Master Data
- Maintenance Logistics Planning
- Practical Exercise and Discussion
Day 2: Programmed Maintenance Development and Planning
- Criticality Grading
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Programmed Task Selection Criteria and Tools
- CMMS Task Plans and Work Orders
- Corrective Maintenance Task Procedures
- Practical Exercise and Discussion
Day 3: Work Management
- Work Management Process Model
- Defect Reporting and Notifications
- Backlog Control
- Capacity Planning and Resourcing
- Schedule with Consensus of Stakeholders
- Practical Exercise and Discussion
Day 4: Shutdown and Turnaround Management
- Network Planning and Critical Path Scheduling
- Resource Profile
- Resource Leveling and Balancing to Optimise the Schedule and Resource Profile
- Shutdown and Turnaround Progress Tracking and Control
- Practical Exercise and Discussion
Day 5: Performance Management
- Setting-up Performance Indicators and Data Sources
- Work Management Performance Indicators
- Asset Maintenance Effectiveness Performance Indicators
- Cost Control Performance Indicators
- Planning Performance Indicators
- Practical Exercise and Discussion
Certificate
- On successful completion of this training course, KC Academy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.