The program provides the delegate with study material on the various aspects to consider for
maintenance planning, as well as techniques and case studies to provide the motivation and skills to
establish and sustain best practice asset maintenance management.

Gain an understanding of the critical contribution to be made by maintenance to the achievement
of business objectives
• Learn how to establish a strategic framework effective maintenance management
• Understand the roles, processes, and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness
• Learn to establish parameters for the measurement of management and technical performance
on all organizational 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

Facilitated by an experienced maintenance specialist, our program will be conducted as a highly
interactive work session (as opposed to lectures), encouraging participants to share their own
experiences and apply the program material to real-life situations. Program size will be limited to 30
delegates in order to stimulate discussion and efficiency of subject coverage. Each delegate will receive
an extensive reference manual, as well as case studies, and throughout the program, delegates will be
encouraged to identify what they can do to enhance Maintenance Management in their organizations

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
• Maintenance evolution - history and modern thinking
• Brief Historical Overview of Maintenance
• Maintenance Types
• Maintenance Plan
• World-Class Reliability and Maintenance

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

Implementing new management approaches
• Failure Management Program (RCM)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Life-Cycle Costing
• Getting the best from your CMMS
• Computerized Maintenance Management
• Why CMMS Implementation Fail

Optimizing maintenance organization
• 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

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