Strategic Maintenance Development Training
Is it right for me?
This course explores all the aspects that can impact the success or failure of your maintenance plan. It takes a three-pronged approach: People, Process and Plant, and is aimed at:
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Middle to senior management who can impact policy across all three of the 3Ps
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Those looking to encourage a fresh maintenance culture within their organisation
What will I learn?
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Understand different maintenance strategies, how to choose the correct one and how to evaluate its performance
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Explore concepts and policy that can help effectively link and coordinate the 3Ps (People, Process and Plant)
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Critically evaluate your maintenance plan
How will I benefit?
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Improve your ability to create an effective maintenance strategy and lead the development of the good maintenance culture that is necessary to implement that strategy
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Get three months of access to modulated course content and assignments, including Q&A sessions with industry experts PLUS a copy of the watermarked slides
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Receive follow-up tasks to aid retention
Course Delivery
Our strategic maintenance development training course can be delivered live over five days via interactive virtual classes or directly in a traditional classroom setup on your site. Alternatively, the course is available via a series of webinars that can be accessed via our website which integrate assignments and Q&A opportunities throughout.
Both options also enable follow-up reminders and tasks designed and scheduled in order to enable optimal retention and engagement. See here for detail on our research backed guide to training.
Course Content
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Understanding the Framework
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Leadership vs. management
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Key maintenance strategies overview
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Run to failure, time/occurrence, preventive, predictive or design out failure
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Maintenance concepts overview
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FMEA, RCM, PM optimisation, etc.
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Planned vs. Reactive Maintenance
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Evaluation of your current PM to RM ratio
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What should the PM to RM ratio be and how this impacts your operation
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How to achieve the right balance at your site
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Understanding Your Workforce
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Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your workers - SWOT analysis
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Calculating, understanding and justifying appropriate staffing levels
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Importance of a Maintenance Feedback Loop
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The Deming Cycle
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How and what to measure when evaluating your maintenance
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Developing a plan in line with a vision while maintaining your budget
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Developing the Maintenance Team
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Performance management overview
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Achieving successful change management
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how to ensure techs subscribe to changes and why it’s important that they do
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Developing and implementing a training plan
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Improving performance
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Maintenance Strategies
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Corrective maintenance
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Preventive maintenance
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Predictive maintenance
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Overview of metrics: Vibration analysis, thermal imaging and acoustical analysis
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PF curve - the cost of choosing the wrong strategy
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The ideal ratio of CM/PrevM/PredM
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Equipment and Line Criticality
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Contingency plans - Risk vs. Probability
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Using the criticality matrix
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Scheduling your Strategy
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Should you do maintenance in operation hours
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Backlog Management - what to do if a disaster prevents scheduled work
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Ongoing: why is some work outstanding every week, what can be changed and what should be prioritised
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One-off event: how to get back on track, what to reschedule and for when
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Evaluating Performance - how to measure it strategy changes you’ve made have been effective
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Overview of Preventive Maintenance
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RCM concepts
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Failure modes: wear in, wear-out, random
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PF curve - the cost of choosing the wrong strategy
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Ideal ratio of CM/PrevM/PredM
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Benefits of implementing or optimising your PM strategy
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PM traps
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Over maintaining the equipment: unnecessary downtime and risk of introducing faults
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How to Create PM Schedules
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CMMS options
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Equipment criticality and route frequency
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Writing a PM Task - what you need to include
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Paper-based v digital check sheets
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Tips for implementing a PM program