Program #04:

Advanced Maintenance (Mechanical) Management

Overview
This course is designed to provide the mechanical maintenance team with management skills required to
keep equipment running increased hours, with less failures, at lower maintenance expenditure. The
planning and control functions are critical components for any maintenance program to fulfill the
stakeholders’ expectations.

Training Objectives:
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
 Understand the Role and Duties of Planners and schedulers
 Learn How to Sell Scheduling & Planning to Management
 Measure the Work Performance of Your Team
 Identify Different Maintenance Management Approaches
 Learn to Work with Purchasing, Operations & Engineering
 How to Deal with Emergencies in Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
 Reporting & Benchmarking for Maintenance Efficiency
 How to Control Backlog
 Apply Critical Path Methods for Maintenance projects and major shutdowns

Topics:
This course is intended for Mechanical Engineers, Personnel and supervisors, Managers and those who
are involved in maintenance work

Training Program:
DAY ONE:
 PRE-TEST
 The Maintenance Process Overview
 Evolution of maintenance strategies: corrective, preventive, predictive, proactive
 Criticality assessment and maintenance type choice
 Building a maintenance program
 Maintenance Work Process Flow
 Work Request Approval
 Work Order system
 Contractor or outside service Requirements
DAY TWO:
 The Scheduling Process Overview
 Pre-Meeting Organization
 Detailed job plans for high priority work orders
 Shutdown requirements
 Backlog and resources optimization
 Priory systems
 Planning and scheduling Reports

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  Maintenance Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
DAY THREE:
 Scheduling for Major shutdown and turnarounds
 Shutdown work identification
 Work packages preparation
 Resources allocation and resource histogram
 Critical Path method
 Crashing schedules
 Turnaround team organization chart
 Turnaround closing report
DAY FOUR:
 Reliability centered maintenance: goals, principles and Process
 Maintenance statistics MTTR, MTBF, availability, maintainability
 Continuous Improvement Techniques & Methods
 Reliability definition and modeling
 System reliability and component reliability
 Reliability logic tree
 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
DAY FIVE:
 Inventory control in maintenance
 Economic order quantity method
 Quality and safety in maintenance
 Manpower: internal vs. contractor
 Maintenance team organization
 Motivation and team management skills
 Course Conclusion
 POST-TEST and EVALUATION

Training Requirement:
“Hand’s on practical sessions, equipment and software will be applied during the course if required
and as per the client’s request”.

Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total
tuition hours:-
 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
 Pre and Post Test

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