Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (MPS)

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (MPS)

In today’s competitive market, companies are under increasing pressure to produce higher quality goods and services at lower production costs. A key component of the overall cost of manufacturing is maintenance and the key role of maintenance is to guarantee the reliability of the production plant. The crucial element for ensuring that maintenance is cost-effectively delivered is the planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks.

The foundation of excellence and achieving cost-effective equipment reliability starts with Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.

Maintenance planning plays a critical role within the overall physical asset management processes yet, many organizations are still struggling to get it implemented properly and reap the benefits that it brings. By understanding the fundamental processes behind this operational level strategy, you will be able to identify what is missing in your personal skillset and in your organization. As a result of your participation in this Maintenance Planning training course, you will also identify the responsibilities you will need to embrace in order to establish an effective maintenance planning function.

This training course places the emphasis on the key processes and techniques of maintenance planning that are necessary to sustain the reliability of our assets. Whether you are new to maintenance planning or you have been doing maintenance planning scheduling for a while, this training program will give you new knowledge, insights, and skills that are of great value to your maintenance career and income earning potential.

This training course will highlight:

• The building blocks of an efficient planning function

• A fast track programmed maintenance development process

• Planning work for quality and efficiency

• Scheduling work in a manner that ensures the continuity of operations

• Gaining the commitment of operations to the maintenance plan and schedule

• Generating performance indicators that pinpoint problems and opportunities

• Eliminating equipment defects through detection, disclosure, planning, scheduling, and execution

Learning objectives & benefits

• Achieve maximum maintenance effectiveness through proper planning and scheduling activities.

• Become proactive rather than reactive in carrying out maintenance activities.

• Increase equipment Availability, Reliability, safety, and plant profitability.

• Differentiate between the planning and scheduling process.

• Apply appropriate prioritization methods based on business risks and needs.

• Implement a Knowledge Management System to address the craft skills shortage.

• Design repeatable procedures to reduce maintenance-induced failures.

• Develop a scheduling process that integrates with Operations.

• Describe and integrate the interdependencies with the Storeroom.

• Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiencies of the maintenance process.

• Understand common maintenance problems, delays, and inefficiencies

• Use performance metrics, PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog, efficiency, and labor utilization

• Define the term backlog and its relationship to estimating

• Create effective job plans

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Successful maintenance planning and scheduling programs require the disciplined application of proven processes and interdepartmental partnerships. It is important for departments that are influenced and impacted by the processes to understand the processes.

• Maintenance Planner

• Planning engineers

• Maintenance Supervisor

• Maintenance Manager

• Maintenance Engineer

• Operation Engineer

• Operation Coordinator

• Production Supervisor

• Reliability Engineer

The foundation of achieving cost-effective equipment reliability starts with Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.

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What you will learn

• Certifications from Arrelic Professional Development Institute.
• The building blocks of an efficient planning function.
• Achieve maximum maintenance effectiveness through proper planning and scheduling activities.

Rating: 4.25

Level: Expert Level

Duration: 3.5 hours

Instructor: Arrelic Institute