Advanced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training Course

Advanced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training Course

Location

Duration

Online /In-Class

1 week

Contact with our Team

Sector:

Cross-Industry – General

Technical Focus Area:

Operational Excellence & Performance (OPEX)

About the Course

Maintenance is a high-leverage contributor to profitability and operational excellence. This course builds the strategic and technical capabilities needed to integrate maintenance with operations, finance, and safety—minimizing lifecycle costs while protecting asset health and throughput.
You will benchmark against world-class standards, implement modern approaches (RCM, TPM, OEE), and unlock more value from CMMS/EAM systems. Practical tools for planning, scheduling, backlog control, spares, and budgeting are reinforced with case exercises to ensure immediate workplace application.
By the end, you will have a coherent strategy and the daily work processes to execute it—linking goals to KPIs, aligning people and resources, and sustaining improvements.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

- Explain the strategic contribution of maintenance to business objectives and profitability.
- Establish a comprehensive framework for effective maintenance management across all levels.
- Define roles, processes, and procedures that drive organizational effectiveness.
- Design KPIs and scorecards to measure technical and managerial performance.
- Improve overall equipment performance (OEE) while safeguarding long-term asset health.
- Apply RCM/TPM concepts to reduce failures and optimize preventive/predictive tasks.
- Utilize CMMS/EAM data for planning, scheduling, backlog control, and decision-making.
- Build and manage maintenance operating and capital budgets using lifecycle principles.
- Strengthen stakeholder communication and safety compliance within maintenance governance.

Who Should Attend

- Maintenance Planners & Schedulers
- Maintenance & Reliability Engineers/Managers
- Operations Supervisors & Production Leaders
- Asset/Plant Managers and EAM/CMMS Administrators
- Continuous Improvement, TPM/Lean, and OPEX Professionals

Course Program

Maintenance Strategy, Role & Business Alignment

- Role of maintenance in modern business; profit, quality, safety, environment

- Maintenance evolution: history, types, and contemporary thinking

- Changes of relevance to maintenance and world-class reliability principles

- Maintenance objectives, plans, and strategy/philosophy

- Cost, value, and the true cost of downtime

- Bottom-line benefits and aligning with enterprise goals

- Integrating maintenance with operations and finance

- **Activity/Workshop:** Draft a maintenance strategy map aligned to business KPIs

Benchmarking, OEE & Performance Measurement

- World-class standards and comparing your plant with the best

- Maintenance self-assessment and maturity models

- Managing and measuring progress to excellence

- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and the Six Big Losses

- Designing effective KPI trees and scorecards

- Data quality and governance for trustworthy metrics

- Visual management and review cadences

- **Exercise:** Build an OEE-linked KPI dashboard and action plan

RCM, TPM & CMMS—Modern Management Approaches

- Failure Management Programme (RCM): functions, failure modes, tasks

- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): pillars and role clarity

- Lifecycle costing: CAPEX/OPEX trade-offs and asset replacement logic

- Getting the best from your CMMS/EAM: structures, codes, master data

- Why CMMS implementations fail—and how to fix them

- Work identification: requests, screening, prioritization

- Integrating PdM/condition monitoring into plans

- **Case Study:** RCM task selection and CMMS setup for a critical asset

Organization Design, Resourcing & Make-or-Buy

- Operations excellence: “Operations + Maintenance = Production”

- Role clarity and interfaces—can operations manage maintenance?

- The “driving lesson” and the 70/30 phenomenon in accountability

- Contract maintenance or not? Make-or-buy decision factors

- Competency development, influence, and communication skills

- Maintenance management legends—myths vs. evidence

- Safety theories, permits, and risk controls in maintenance work

- **Group Activity:** Service strategy—internal vs. outsourced model selection

Planning, Scheduling, Backlog & Budget Control

- Maintenance workflow process end-to-end

- Work requests and work orders: scoping, estimating, kitting

- Planning & scheduling fundamentals; frozen windows and look-aheads

- Backlog management and prioritization (risk-based)

- Resource & contractor management; craft productivity

- Spare parts and inventory strategy; critical spares analysis

- Operating and capital budgeting; replacement analysis and initiatives

- **Capstone:** Build a weekly schedule, backlog dashboard, and budget roll-up for a model plant

Course Dates & Prices

Location	Starting Date	Price
Online	19/10/2025	1799 $
Dubai (UAE)	20/10/2025	2549 $
Dubai (UAE)	20/10/2025	2799$
Cairo (Egypt)	27/10/2025	2549 $
Online	27/10/2025	1799 $
Online	03/11/2025	1799 $
Dubai (UAE)	10/11/2025	2799 $
Muscat (Oman)	10/11/2025	2799 $
Dubai (UAE)	17/11/2025	2799 $
Online	17/11/2025	1799 $
Muscat (Oman)	24/11/2025	2799 $
Online	24/11/2025	1799 $
Online	24/11/2025	1799 $
Dubai (UAE)	01/12/2025	2799 $
Online	01/12/2025	1799 $
Online	01/12/2025	1799 $
London (UK)	01/12/2025	3299 $
Dubai (UAE)	08/12/2025	2799$
Online	08/12/2025	1699 $
Istanbul (Turkey)	15/12/2025	2799 $
Dubai (UAE)	15/12/2025	2799 $
Online	15/12/2025	1799 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)	22/12/2025	3899$
Doha (Qatar)	22/12/2025	2799 $
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)	22/12/2025	3899$
Online	29/12/2025	1799 $
Dubai (UAE)	29/12/2025	2799$
Istanbul	29/12/2025	2549 $
Online	29/12/2025	1799 $