Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Course

Introduction:

This CMMS course is intended to provide a strategy for implementing a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for participants seeking ways to improve and automate their management systems. It offers attendees an understanding of their organization's current state within the Maintenance Department.

This computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) training will introduce potential advancements through implementing a CMMS to achieve the desired level of organization. It will review the necessary tools to bridge existing gaps and explore the advantages of a CMMS. It will learn how CMMS offers visibility over maintenance tasks.

Participants will enhance preventive maintenance, reduce downtime, improve inventory management, extend asset life, and improve regulatory compliance. By understanding CMMS's functionality and potential, attendees will be well-positioned to fully utilize its capabilities and integrate it into their organizations for optimal maintenance management results.

It's crucial to understand a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers perform their jobs more effectively and to help management make informed decisions.

Targeted Groups:

• This computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) course targets all companies interested in utilizing computer maintenance planning and management systems.
• Maintenance Managers.
• Maintenance Supervisors, Maintenance Engineers.
• Purchasing Managers.
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Engineers.
• Maintenance Team Leaders.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) course, participants will be able to:

• Provide a broad understanding of maintenance and its relevant aspects.
• Understand how to select each asset's most cost-effective maintenance strategy to control risks and costs.
• Offer a comprehensive view of the importance, objectives, and benefits of maintenance planning and scheduling to save time and cost and efficiently utilize maintenance resources to maximize manpower productive time.
• Explain the fundamentals of planning and scheduling, such as concepts, processes, tools, techniques, methodologies, roles, responsibilities, KPIs, analysis, and reporting.
• Discuss the crucial role and functions of the CMMS as a primary tool for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
• Detail the planning, scheduling, and work management processes.
• Work identification and prioritization, work requests/orders, quality control, scheduling meetings, materials and logistics, work coordination, resource preparations and utilization, safety aspects of work execution, work order completion, backlog management, maintenance performance measuring (KPIs), work orders closing, history data analysis for enhancement, and closing the feedback loop.
• Highlight the importance of Spare parts and Inventory Management.
• Give an overview of Project Management techniques as important Maintenance Planning and Scheduling tools.
• Emphasize the types of KPIs (leading and lagging), main maintenance and planning KPIs, and benchmarking against world-class best practices.
• Engage in interactive sessions, reviewing Interactive Computer Maintenance Planning and Management Systems with the opportunity for practical sessions using laptop computers.

Targeted Competencies:

At the end of this computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) training, participants competencies will:

• Maintenance Planning (Planners, Schedulers, Engineers, Leaders, and Managers).
• Maintenance (Engineers, Supervisors, Section Leaders, Team Leaders, and managers).
• Reliability (Engineers, Section Leaders, Team Leaders, and Managers).
• Integrity (Engineers, Section Leaders, Team Leaders, and Managers).
• Operation (Engineers, Section Leaders, Team Leaders, and Managers).

Course Content:

Unit 1: Understanding Maintenance First (What We Plan and Schedule):

• Introduction and Pre-evaluation.
• Where is Maintenance in the Big Picture?
• Main Maintenance Types and Strategies.
• Reactive Maintenance.
• Run to Failure Maintenance.
• Corrective Maintenance.
• Preventive Maintenance (PM).
• Condition Based Maintenance (CBM).
• Predictive Maintenance (PdM).

Unit 2: Methods and Tools in Maintenance & Understanding Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:

• Maintenance Strategy Selection Methodology.
• Asset Criticality Assessment/Analysis as a key tool for Maintenance Strategy selection.
• Understanding Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
• Definitions.
• Difference between Planning and Scheduling.
• Main Objectives of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Process.
• The Six Maintenance Planning Principles.
• Explore the Role of the Maintenance Planner.
• The Six Maintenance Scheduling Principles.
• The Role of the Maintenance Scheduler.
• Necessary Elements for Planning and Scheduling.
• Planning System Necessities.

Unit 3: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, CMMS & Work Management:

• Tools Necessary for Effective Maintenance Control System.
• CMMS is a main Maintenance Planning, Scheduling, and Work Management tool.
• Differences between CMMS and AMS/EAM.
• Objectives and benefits of CMMS.
• Main modules and functions of CMMS.
• CMMS Failure Codes.
• Work Management.
• Backlog Management.

Unit 4: Turn Maintenance into a Profit Center:

• The Maintenance Image.
• Cost Center versus Profit Center Approach.
• How to Turn Maintenance into a Profit Center?
• How can a CMMS help?
• Profit-Driven Maintenance (PDM).
• Optimum Reliability Allocation.
• Cost/Feasibility Functions.
• Determining Component Reliabilities.
• Specifying Component Reliabilities.
• Availability Definitions.
• Introduction of Maintainability.

Unit 5: Advanced Simulation Options:

• Register a new maintenance task in the CMMS.
• View And modify an existing maintenance task.
• Create a maintenance schedule master.
• Modify and view an existing maintenance schedule.
• Generate CMMS reports.
• Interactive practical applications.
• Questions/Discussion and Wrap-up.