MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY

DESCRIPTION:

This course, which is often paired with the Outage! experience, teaches you maintenance planning and scheduling best practices to use maintenance labor more efficiently; reduce time needed to search for parts, tools, and drawings; reduce time waiting for jobs to be assigned; and streamline complex down days and shutdowns. It covers the benefits of planning and scheduling; the processes of work identification, estimating work, managing backlog, scheduling work, and gathering and analyzing equipment history; and how to track and interpret maintenance metrics. It includes thorough coverage of down day and outage planning and tracking.

RECOMMENDED AUDIENCE:

This course is recommended for maintenance planners, backups, and coordinators. It would also benefit maintenance supervisors or managers wishing to gain a comprehensive understanding of planning and scheduling best practices.

YOU WILL LEARN:

• Define roles and responsibilities in the planning and scheduling process
• Effectively identify and prioritize work
• Perform equipment walk downs
• Sequence tasks
• Estimate time
• Manage backlog
• Schedule routine daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks
• Implement and complete the process for planning and tracking complex down-day and outage events

COURSE DURATION:

2 days, plus an optional day for the Outage! The Planning and Scheduling Experience course