INTRODUCTION

Maintenance planning and scheduling, arguably the most neglected functions of modern asset management, are at the heart of an effective maintenance management system. Through work orders and a CMMS, maintenance planning covers the daily or weekly planning, scheduling, and control activities to ensure that scheduled work is relevant and that available resources are used optimally. Yet many organizations still need help to make their maintenance planning and scheduling as effective as possible.

Most asset-intensive organizations recognize that efficient and effective maintenance planning and scheduling is one of those cornerstone processes that can help assure equipment reliability and attain operational excellence. Yet studies show that most companies still need to perform maintenance planning effectively, negatively impacting work effectiveness, wrench time, equipment uptime, equipment reliability, and cost. In the long run, unplanned or unscheduled downtime and maintenance store stock-outs rob the business of capacity and profit.

Organizations must plan, schedule, and track maintenance activities to achieve world-class performance. Planning and scheduling are two functions that work together to create a maintenance program in the maintenance world. Planning is the process of planning, while scheduling is the process of reconfiguring workloads in a production/manufacturing process. Scheduling is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production processes, and purchase materials.

Maintenance planning and scheduling are among the fastest and most effective investments an organization can make to improve productivity and availability. Equipment reliability is increased. Waiting times, unnecessary parts, and inaccurate information are eliminated. Budgeting is easier and more accurate. Maintenance tasks are as much as 50% more efficient regarding costs and time.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling examines topics including a proactive work management process, job estimation and prioritization, backlog management, job plan development, work scheduling and coordination, tracking progress, and supporting reliability engineers with valuable equipment history and root cause analysis input.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is often misunderstood and needs to be implemented and executed properly. This course is designed to give the organization the tools to implement best practices around maintenance planning & scheduling.

Masterclass on Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control