The business goals will place organisational, as well technical demands on the enterprise. The strategy therefore has to integrate and guide the implementation of technical and managerial strategies at all organisational and process levels.

The strategy/philosophy must represent the very best technology, procedures and practices available, relevant to the business goals of the organisation. The strategy must will define the processes/procedures/practices required to achieve the highest possible degree of maintenance management and maintenance effectiveness, whilst minimising total life-cycle costs of new assets and current operating costs of existing assets.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Gain an understanding of the critical contribution to be made by maintenance to the achivement of business objectives
• Learn how to establish a strategic framework effective maintenance management
• Understand the roles, processes and procedures to ensure organisational effectiveness
• Learn to establish parameters for the measurement of management and technical performance on all organisational levels
• Improve overall equipment performance, while ensuring long term asset health

• Operations Managers
• Maintenance Managers
• Engineering Managers
• Continuous Improvement Leaders
• Maintenance Engineers
• Reliability Engineers
• CMMS Implementation Project Leaders

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

DAY 1

CHAPTER 1 - MAINTENANCE OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

• Changes of relevance to Maintenance
• Role of Maintenance in Modern Business
• Reducing Costs and Improving Performance
• What is the true Downtime Cost?
• Maintenance Cost and Value
• Bottom-line Benefits

CHAPTER 2 - MAINTENANCE EVOLUTION – HISTORY AND MODERN THINKING

• Brief Historical Overview of Maintenance
• Maintenance Types
• Maintenance Plan
• World-Class Reliability and Maintenance

DAY 2

CHAPTER 3 WORLD - CLASS STANDARDS - COMPARING YOUR PLANT WITH THE BEST

• Benchmarking and Maintenance Performance Assessment
• Maintenance Self-Assessment
• Managing and Measuring progress to Excellence
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness

DAY 3

CHAPTER 4 - IMPLEMENTING NEW MANAGEMENT APPROACHES

• Failure Management Programme (RCM)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Life-Cycle Costing

CHAPTER 5 - GETTING THE BEST FROM YOUR CMMS

• Computerised Maintenance Management
• Why CMMS Implementation Fail

DAY 4

CHAPTER 6 - OPTIMISING MAINTENANCE ORGANISATION

• Operations Excellence
• Operations + Maintenance = Production
• Can Operations Manage Maintenance?
• A Driving Lesson for Operations and Maintenance
• 70/30 Phenomenon
• Contract Maintenance or not?
• Maintenance Management Legends

DAY 5

• A Framework for Achieving Best Practice in Maintenance
• Case Studies

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.