Masterclass on Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control

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.

WHAT THE PARTICIPANTS CAN EXPECT TO LEARN

Students will know how to properly plan work and schedule based on proven industry best practices. All students will learn to prioritize, scope, plan, and continuously improve planned work. They understand the cost of scheduled planned work, just the reactive work. A student will learn the definitions of the words used in the industry. Students will learn what is true or false in planning and scheduling. All students will learn how to apply this knowledge to real-life situations and problems from the viewpoint of someone that can solve essential planning and scheduling problems. Students will learn the precision skills and technology known in planning and scheduling; they will be able to produce the results that can be achieved through a practical planner and scheduler.

OBJECTIVES

• Learn how to plan and schedule maintenance work management systems effectively.

• Learn how to structure a maintenance organization to allow planners/schedulers to avoid a reactive maintenance environment successfully.

• Understand the correct process for work management from the initial work order to job execution.

• Learn how to rank and prioritize maintenance work and understand Key Performance Indicators that they will need to track the planning and scheduling process.

• Using Best Practices to execute an effective work management system.

• Explain the challenges and objectives facing maintenance organizations today.

• Demonstrate the importance of work order systems and use techniques for time estimations and priority assignments.

• Prepare a preventive maintenance program.

• Apply project management techniques to effectively manage major maintenance activities and shutdowns.

• Use continuous improvement processes in maintenance to drive performance.

• Most importantly, to learn the steps to implement planning and scheduling at their site.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This workshop prepares maintenance personnel to become successful. Maintenance Planners and Schedulers who support the Planning and Scheduling function should attend this workshop. The class gives company Change Agents a firm grip on implementing a successful program. Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Operations Managers and Supervisors, Purchasing, Materials Management, Maintenance Engineers, IT Support, and other Reliability personnel, including shop floor Crafts-person and Maintenance Clerks, should also attend to understand their involvement to support the improvements.

BENEFITS

• Learn best practices in maintenance planning and scheduling used by leading manufacturing companies.
  

• Know how to scope work to increase efficiency and minimize unscheduled downtime.
  

• Understand how to enhance the quality of the work.
  

• Improve communications between operations and other organizations.
  

• Develop and track Key Performance Indicators within maintenance and operations.
  

• Improve safety
  

• Reduce Maintenance Costs
  

• Increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  

• Increase maintenance productivity

METHODOLOGY

The adaptive planning framework (APF) methodology, also known as adaptive planning management (APM), is an agile project management methodology designed with the inevitable change in mind. That means that by using adaptive project framework methods; teams must try to anticipate the risks and prepare for the unexpected in their plan. They need to understand that critical components are constantly in flux and continuously re-evaluate results and decisions with these moving parts in mind. This requires lots of communication with all stakeholders and collaboration like other process methodologies.

This On-line instructor-led training with two-way communication using a web-based tool will
include building plans and schedulers through simulators and role-playing.

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