Planning, Scheduling and Control ​

24 Training Hours

 

Introduction

Experienced maintenance and engineering personnel interested in a detailed overview of operations, accurate maintenance estimating, scheduling, and best practice maintenance planning.

 

This workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to help you fully understand and apply concepts learned.

 

Objectives

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• Recognize the advantages of using job plans from cost, time & quality perspectives

• Understand the basic concepts of a risk-based approach to job plan building

• Define the job plan building process

• Define job risk

• Determine the appropriate level of job plan content based on criticality

• Understand the components and layout of an instruction set

• Define naming conventions to be consistent throughout processes

• Build a maintenance project plan

• Utilize critical paths and flowchart or Gantt chart to trace out shutdown activities

• Apply shutdown best practice controls and planning

• Learn how to get management support by being able to explain why you need or should plan a shutdown

• Develop and control the scope of a shutdown schedule

• Effective planning and scheduling of your shutdown

• Acquire skills to better manage / control the major shutdown variables, constraints and risks during the implementation phase

 

Methodology

 

This course was developed using over 30 years of experience of world class best practices. The focus is on value adding planning & scheduling functional process and understanding it’s impact on the maintenance efficiency of critical physical assets.

 

The exchange of instructor and students’ experiences, case studies and practical exercise complements positively the lecture.

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Benefits

 

• Maintenance planning and scheduling prioritizes and organizes work in a highly efficient executable manner.

• Effective utilization of planners, supervisors, and craftspeople.

• Lower costs due to efficient use of maintenance labor hours.

• Value adding management of information, risk and time.

• Increased Asset Availability.

• Decreased unit cost of production.

• Sustainable increased profit margin.

 

Who should attend?

 

For experienced industry personnel seeking practical, world-class, hands-on training relating to the theory and concepts for applying a risk-based approach to job plan building as well as the procedures and guidelines for building risk-based job plans.

 

This workshop will provide students with interactive, hands-on training including practical and industry specific case studies.

 

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Who should attend?

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• Maintenance Planners

• Maintenance Schedulers

• Maintenance Managers

• Maintenance Superintendents

• Maintenance Engineers

• Reliability Engineers

 

Key Topics

 

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• Planner Skills & Competencies Profile

• Understanding Asset Management

• Asset Management Life Cycle Management

• Planning Process Flow

• Planning Principles and Concepts

• Long Term Planning and Scheduling

• Phases of Estimating

• Performance Measurement