Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control

Maintenance planning and scheduling is the first step needed to assist maintenance departments in achieving the  two conflicting objectives of maximizing assets availability and reliability with the optimal cost. Besides planning and scheduling activities the planners need to ensure that all logistics are provided for, and engage in the financial evaluation of maintenance initiatives.

This training course provides the participants with principles of effective maintenance planning, as well as proven techniques for the development of an effective maintenance plan, the planning and control of maintenance work, shutdown management, and management reporting and analysis.

The important features of the Achieving Customer Service Excellence training course are:

• Serving the Internal and External Customer
• The Customer Service Mindset
• Profiles of Different Customers Personalities
• Handling Customers Complaints and attaining Customer Satisfaction

The Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control training course is designed to provide essential physical asset management skills, a clear understanding of your role and work more effectively within a team environment. Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Identify planning best practices and key elements for taking action on them
• Understand how world-class organizations solve common planning problems
• Evaluate their practices compared to those of others
• Improve productivity through the use of better, more timely information
• Create and preserve lead-time in work management and use it for planning and scheduling resources
• Improve consistency and reliability of asset information

The Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control training course is suitable for Maintenance Engineers, Supervisors, and Planners; Maintenance Operations Professionals; Maintenance Schedulers and Work Preparers; Maintenance Support Team Members.

The Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control training course uses a mix of interactive and hands-on techniques. Besides the presentations, the thrust will be on real-life work-related situations to develop maintenance schedules for preventive and breakdown jobs.   Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences, to stimulate group discussion and efficiency of subject coverage. Case studies and worked out solutions will be given to the delegates upon conclusion of group discussions.

Pre & Post course assessments will be used to measure the effectiveness of this training.