Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (Online Course)

• The difference between Planning & Scheduling
• Planning, scheduling and work controls within the maintenance management structure
• Planned maintenance as an integral activity in asset care
• Understanding failure and what planned maintenance can and cannot do
• The role of Maintenance Planning

• Develop Planned Maintenance routines including Usage and information management
• Draft a maintenance schedule and measure success.
• Get planned work scheduled and done - liaison with Production

The course is designed to meet the needs of maintenance professionals and change agents tasked with improving maintenance performance and value for money. These include:

• Maintenance Planners and deputies
• Maintenance Manager/supervisors and key leaders from each
• Maintenance craft
• Key Operations Supervisors
• CMMS Administrator or key users
• Change agents and engineering business sponsors

• Where are you now and where do you need to be?
• What is planning and scheduling?
• Typical Maintenance organizations
• The role of planning and the Planner
• The role of scheduling and the Scheduler
• The Planning and Scheduling Process
• Variations within different organizations
• Practical workflows and their control

EXERCISE: Mapping and analysis of Planning and Scheduling Process and workflows (candidates take this away to consider and present at Session 2) 

• Work Controls – making the process work
• Data capture
• Asset registers
• Functional locations
• Additional equipment information needed by planners
• Understanding failure and what planned maintenance can and cannot do
• An appreciation of the source of Planned Maintenance activities
• The How’s and Why’s of failure
• Age and Non Age-related failure patterns
• Maintenance Tactics - What can be done to address failure patterns

EXERCISE: Case study on failure patterns and maintenance tactics (candidates take this away to consider and present at Session 3)

• Planned Maintenance routines
• Objectives
• Compilation and Formats
• Usage and information management
• One off planned works
• Job assessment
• Information and materiel requirements
• Scheduling and managing the work
• Completion

EXERCISE: Case study on “one off planned task” (candidates take this away to consider and present at Session 4)

• Getting the Planned Work done
• Understanding Production and Compliance requirements
• Scheduling planned work
• Maintenance Management Systems
• Long and short term forecasts
• Opportunity maintenance
• Planning and scheduling Case study and interactive exercise

• Performance metrics.
• Applying knowledge gained
• Where are you now?
• Where do you need to be?
• How are you going to get there?
• How long will it take – where will you be in 12 months
• Realistic target within 1/3/6/9 months
• Making the case and gaining approval
• Setting and agreeing milestones
• Do it
• Course Review and feedback

The workshop will be led by Colin Sanders.

Colin served a Royal Air Force apprenticeship as an aircraft engineering technician. He progressed through trade (Licentiateship of City & Guilds) and supervisory management development (MISM, management and instructor training) to become a senior maintenance and operations manager and planner.

As a practitioner Colin has supported maintenance improvement and change management programmes as a project manager, advisor, and facilitator. He has also developed and delivered training programmes in support of a range of operational excellence projects. Colin’s extensive experience has seen him advise and lead business process reengineering projects including the implementation of performance measurements to clarify operations and maintenance accountabilities and support the delivery of business improvement goals. Industry experience includes food and drink, manufacturing and processing, engineering, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and fabrication. This has seen him work with a range of well respected and award winning companies such as BMW, Bombardier, The Ministry of Defence, Ikea, Johnson and Johnson, Fuji Biomass, Kepak Foods and Formica.