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Maintenance Planning: Building an Effective Planning System and a Competent Team

Introduction

Whether you are a novice in the field of maintenance planning or are seasoned in maintenance planning and scheduling, this maintenance planner training course will enhance your knowledge, insights, and capabilities, which are crucial for your professional advancement.

Maintenance planning is a pivotal component within the broader framework of physical asset management. However, many organizations need help with its proper implementation and with realizing the advantages it offers. Grasping the processes underpinning this operational strategy allows for the identification of skillsets and organizational gaps.

By participating in this maintenance planning and scheduling course, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling, enabling you to fulfill your role and responsibilities within a competent maintenance planning function.

This training emphasizes the key processes and techniques of the maintenance planning process, which are essential to sustaining the reliability of assets, developing a robust building maintenance plan, and understanding what planned maintenance is.

Defining Maintenance Planning and Scheduling - A Core Component of Asset Management

This course delves into defining maintenance planning and maintenance scheduling – two critical aspects of asset management. Participants will explore the respective roles of the maintenance planner and maintenance scheduler within the framework of operational excellence. This module underscores the importance of a certificate in maintenance planning and scheduling for aspiring professionals seeking to formalize their expertise in the field.

By understanding the principles and functions embodied in the roles of maintenance planner and maintenance scheduler, course attendees will learn how targeted training and development activities can bolster their organization's maintenance effectiveness and efficiency.

Targeted Groups

  • Planners.
  • Maintenance and Reliability Engineers.
  • Planning Engineers.
  • Maintenance Supervisors.
  • Maintenance Engineers.
  • Maintenance Team Leaders and Managers.
  • Operations Team Leaders and Managers.
  • Technical Support Staff.

Course Objectives

By the end of this maintenance planning and scheduling course, participants will be able to:

  • Set up master data to support a comprehensive maintenance plan.
  • Facilitate the development and implementation of a planned maintenance system.
  • Develop task plans and procedures that align with safety, quality, and efficiency standards.
  • Initiate the procurement of logistics to enable the execution of scheduled maintenance.
  • Compile a building maintenance schedule in consultation with stakeholders for an upcoming period.
  • Produce performance indicator-based reports to highlight areas of concern and drive continuous improvement.

Targeted Competencies

At the end of this maintenance planning and scheduling course, the participants will be able to:

  • The foundation of an efficient maintenance planning function.
  • An object-based approach to programmed maintenance development.
  • Planning work for safety, quality, and efficiency.
  • Scheduling maintenance with operational continuity in mind.
  • Bridging the operations to maintenance schedule gap.
  • Developing one-page performance indicator reports to drive improvement.
  • Eliminating equipment defects through detection, disclosure, planning, scheduling, and execution.

Course Content

Unit 1: The Building Blocks of a Modern Maintenance Management System

  • The asset healthcare model.
  • Asset master data.
  • Organization master data.
  • Maintenance logistics planning.
  • Practical exercise and discussion.

Unit 2: Programmed Maintenance Development and Planning

  • Criticality grading.
  • Failure modes and effects analysis.
  • Programmed task selection criteria and tools.
  • CMMS task plans and work orders.
  • Corrective maintenance task procedures.
  • Practical exercise and discussion. 

Unit 3: Work Management

  • Work management process model.
  • Defect reporting and notifications.
  • Backlog control.
  • Capacity planning and resourcing.
  • Schedule with consensus of stakeholders.
  • Practical exercise and discussion. 

Unit 4: Shutdown and Turnaround Management

  • Network planning and critical path scheduling. 
  • Resource profile. 
  • Resource leveling and balancing to optimize the schedule and resource profile. 
  • Shutdown and turnaround progress tracking and control. 
  • Practical exercise and discussion.

Unit 5: Performance Management

  • Setting up performance indicators and data sources.
  • Work management performance indicators.
  • Asset maintenance effectiveness performance indicators.
  • Cost control performance indicators.
  • Planning performance indicators.
  • Practical exercise and discussion.

Dubai (UAE)
21 - 25 Jun 2026
4900 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
21 - 25 Jun 2026
5500 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
28 Jun - 02 Jul 2026
4900 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
12 - 16 Jul 2026
4200 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
12 - 16 Jul 2026
4900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
13 - 17 Jul 2026
7200 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
19 - 23 Jul 2026
5500 Euro
London (UK)
20 - 24 Jul 2026
5900 Euro
Milan (Italy)
20 - 24 Jul 2026
7200 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
27 - 31 Jul 2026
6200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
27 - 31 Jul 2026
6200 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
27 - 31 Jul 2026
6600 Euro
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10 - 14 Aug 2026
6200 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
16 - 20 Aug 2026
4000 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
16 - 20 Aug 2026
5500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
06 - 10 Sep 2026
4900 Euro
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06 - 10 Sep 2026
4900 Euro
London (UK)
07 - 11 Sep 2026
5900 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
13 - 17 Sep 2026
5500 Euro
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14 - 18 Sep 2026
6200 Euro
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20 - 24 Sep 2026
4000 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
20 - 24 Sep 2026
5500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
04 - 08 Oct 2026
4900 Euro
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04 - 08 Oct 2026
4000 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
11 - 15 Oct 2026
5500 Euro
Online
11 - 15 Oct 2026
2900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
12 - 16 Oct 2026
7200 Euro
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25 - 29 Oct 2026
2900 Euro
Paris (France)
26 - 30 Oct 2026
6900 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
01 - 05 Nov 2026
4200 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
01 - 05 Nov 2026
5500 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
02 - 06 Nov 2026
6200 Euro
Milan (Italy)
02 - 06 Nov 2026
7200 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
23 - 27 Nov 2026
6200 Euro
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30 Nov - 04 Dec 2026
5900 Euro
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30 Nov - 04 Dec 2026
6900 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
07 - 11 Dec 2026
6200 Euro
Munich (Germany)
07 - 11 Dec 2026
6200 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
13 - 17 Dec 2026
4900 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
10 - 14 Jan 2027
4900 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
24 - 28 Jan 2027
5500 Euro
Online
24 - 28 Jan 2027
2900 Euro
Brussels (Belgium)
25 - 29 Jan 2027
6200 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
31 Jan - 04 Feb 2027
5500 Euro
Online
31 Jan - 04 Feb 2027
2900 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
01 - 05 Feb 2027
6200 Euro
London (UK)
08 - 12 Feb 2027
5900 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
14 - 18 Feb 2027
4000 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
15 - 19 Feb 2027
6200 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
28 Feb - 04 Mar 2027
5500 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
07 - 11 Mar 2027
4000 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
14 - 18 Mar 2027
4900 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
21 - 25 Mar 2027
4900 Euro
Casablanca (Morocco)
22 - 26 Mar 2027
4900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
22 - 26 Mar 2027
7200 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
28 Mar - 01 Apr 2027
4200 Euro
London (UK)
05 - 09 Apr 2027
5900 Euro
Paris (France)
05 - 09 Apr 2027
6900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
05 - 09 Apr 2027
7200 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
11 - 15 Apr 2027
4900 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
11 - 15 Apr 2027
4200 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
18 - 22 Apr 2027
5500 Euro
Geneva (Switzerland)
19 - 23 Apr 2027
7500 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
19 - 23 Apr 2027
6200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
19 - 23 Apr 2027
6200 Euro
Lisbon (Portugal)
19 - 23 Apr 2027
6200 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
02 - 06 May 2027
4900 Euro
Paris (France)
03 - 07 May 2027
6900 Euro
Online
09 - 13 May 2027
2900 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
10 - 14 May 2027
6600 Euro
Lisbon (Portugal)
10 - 14 May 2027
6200 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
16 - 20 May 2027
5500 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
17 - 21 May 2027
6200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
17 - 21 May 2027
6200 Euro
London (UK)
24 - 28 May 2027
5900 Euro
Online
30 May - 03 Jun 2027
2900 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
31 May - 04 Jun 2027
6200 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
06 - 10 Jun 2027
5500 Euro
Boston (USA)
07 - 11 Jun 2027
9500 Euro

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