Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Planning for Profitability - SMRP Certification

Introduction

Effective planning & scheduling, when done properly, is one of the easiest and most effective returns on investment strategies your organization can implement. This SMRP accredited course was designed to teach you the real-world skills needed to properly implement proven planning & scheduling techniques to reach world-class efficiency throughout your entire organization. Included in the course;

A mix of lectures, readings, quizzes, and discussions to help you fully understand the proper implementation of industry-proven techniques.

 Practical exercises that allow you to immediately place or apply profitable changes in your Planning & Scheduling program. 12 years of tips and world-class techniques from an industry leader Simple solutions to reactive problems

 In addition, this course is recognized by the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals, under their Approved Provider program. If you complete this course, you will be accredited with 35 hours toward the recertification of the CMRP designation, complete with a certificate.

Objectives

• Differentiate between the Planning & Scheduling processes
• Apply appropriate prioritization methods based on business risk and needs Implement a knowledge management system
• Design repeatable procedures to prevent maintenance induced failures Develop a scheduling process that integrates with operations
• Describe and integrate the interdependencies with the storeroom
• Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the work management process Deliver sustainable improvements in safety
• Break the reactive cycle and start the journey to a proactive environment 

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in the process, maintenance and operations management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for maintenance managers and reliability professionals.  Experienced supervisors, planners, project engineers, operations managers, functional specialists, and those seeking to achieve the CMRP designation will also benefit from this course.

Course Outline

An introduction to the Model of Excellence

• How maintenance has evolved
• Sources of best practice and benchmarking options
• The pitfalls of traditional maintenance practices
• Understanding where money should be invested and where money tends to be wasted
• The importance of planning
• The relationship between fixed costs and maintenance performance
• A change in thinking
• Away from cost reduction or reliability or safety
• Towards cost reduction and reliability and safety
• The modern maintenance strategy and asset management
• How pace setters add value through maintenance innovation and integration with operating teams

Aligning Maintenance with the Business plan and Managing for Performance

• How to align maintenance with the unique requirements of any business
• Developing a maintenance vision and a credible plan for delivering this
• Launching and managing the Maintenance Improvement plan
• Selecting and tracking Key Performance Indicators to track progress towards the vision
• An overview of change management
• Overcoming resistance
• Processes and tools for managing change
• Effective management of Human Factors
• Identifying and satisfying stakeholders
• Communication
• Health, safety and environmental considerations

A Holistic Approach to Asset Reliability Improvement 

• Understanding the relevant management processes for any asset and operation
• Reliability Centred Maintenance
• Lean and six-sigma
• Total Productive Maintenance
• The ideal reliability road map
• Improving process performance
• Cost, risk and value engineering
• The principles of cost-effective maintenance investment
• Management processes
• Reliability improvement methodologies
• Change Management for key processes
• Auditing and assurance processes for compliance with reliability processes
• Conforming with local legislation and relevant standards

Improving Reliability at Equipment Level 

• Setting reliability targets at the equipment level
• Assessing and baselining present equipment performance
• Analysis options to understand the underlying causes of inadequate equipment performance
• Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Weibull analysis
• Criticality analysis
• Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis
• Development of effective maintenance plans
• Reactive
• Preventive
• Predictive
• Proactive
• Condition monitoring options for different equipment and failure modes
• A process to ensure new equipment reliability is at the required level
• Implementation of reliability plans for all equipment

Developing a High-Performance Team 

• Developing an organization that will support the reliability and maintenance strategies
• Setting reliability focused culture
• The roles of personnel outside maintenance in reliability improvement and how to engage the right people in the right way
• Assessing gaps in the organizational skills and the current capability vs that required
• Competency management (training and developing personnel).
• Leadership skills required to deliver full organizational performance
• Setting reliability focused culture
• The roles of personnel outside maintenance in reliability improvement and how to engage the right people in the right way

Work Management (The Maintenance Process)

• Optimizing the workflow process and CMMS system performance
• Modern workflow management processes
• Adjusting efforts to drive performance and Continuous Improvement
• Identifying the correct scope of work
• The work that is critical
• Eliminating waste
• Approval and prioritization of work
• Planning and work pack development for maximum efficiency
• Scheduling work to meet targets and match resource plans
• On-Time In Full work execution
• Tool time improvements
• Controlling HSE
• Recording work done, learning and improving future work

Work Management (Major Activities and Supporting Services)

• Planning and executing projects
• Managing maintenance materials and stores
• Use of computer-based technology
• An introduction to major maintenance tasks, shutdowns and turnarounds