Tools & Strategies to Maximise Maintenance Performance

Why This Course 

In today’s business world the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively manage your maintenance program go far beyond those relating to the repair and operation of your equipment and machines. The maintenance budget in some companies can be up to 25% of the total operating budget, and the success of your maintenance program can significantly affect the bottom line. Therefore, it is imperative that you develop the skills necessary to run your maintenance operation as a contributing business unit in your company.

This innovative course will help you accomplish this goal. 

Develop Your Skills 

This practical course will further your development as an effective manager with the tools, knowledge and techniques needed to: 

• Manage your employees

• Schedule and track maintenance activities

• Cost justify your maintenance operation and maintenance projects

• Insure that projects are done on time and within the budget

• Collect and use data to analyze trends and generate accurate budgets

• Reduce the operation’s impact on the environment

• Reduce and manage energy costs 

Who Will Benefit 

This course will be valuable to

• Maintenance supervisors and managers

• Maintenance, industrial and manufacturing engineers

• Plant engineers

• Plant managers

• Others concerned with improving maintenance performance 

Programme Content

Effectively Using Your Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Most companies have a CMMS, but many are not utilising them to their full capabilities. When fully understood and correctly implemented, your CMMS can help you do a better job of scheduling your maintenance activities, planning and managing your maintenance resources, coordinating and executing your preventive equipment and machine maintenance efforts with production, tracking maintenance trends, collecting and analysing data to develop accurate budgets and cost justifying your maintenance program.

• Cost-effective maintenance through CMMS

• CMMS as a tool for improvement

• Planning your maintenance activities

• Managing your maintenance resources

• Scheduling maintenance with production

• Managing maintenance history files

• Tracking your maintenance costs

• Budgeting and cost justification 

Effective Project Management Techniques for Maintenance

Maintenance projects are complex and complicated, demanding integration, coordination, risk assessment and a broad management perspective. Learning the fundamental knowledge and skills that are critical to almost all maintenance projects is crucial if you are to complete projects on-time and on-budget.

• The basic “core” principles for effective management of all projects

• Defining project work and deliverables

• Identifying activities and defining logical sequences of work for scheduling

• Determining work activity and overall project costs

• Defining and managing project risk

• Implementing integrated methods of project monitoring and control

Implementing a Green Building Strategy 

Green building planning, design and operation have taken on a whole new meaning and relevancy recently. It is no longer a question of social responsibility or corporate good citizenship, but an issue of saving money and complying with new expectations and standards related to waste and consumption of valuable resources. Implementing a green building strategy can save you money while reducing your company’s carbon footprint. 

• Introduction to green building concepts and terminology 

• Benchmarking your facility
• Real buildings, real results 

Understanding Financial Systems and Cost Justifying Your Maintenance Program.

Financial data drive almost every decision made in your company. Knowing the terminology and understanding the functioning of financial systems are important to effectively manage your maintenance program, communicate effectively with other departments and executives in your organisation and deal with key issues facing your department. 

• The basics of an organisation’s financial statements, and better understanding your organisation’s operations and objectives

• Getting approval for your projects and justifying your maintenance program costs with solid financial information and useful cost justification techniques

• Understanding quarterly results, cost drivers, cash flow, liquid assets, net profits and other important financial metrics

• Understanding how your department’s decisions affect other departments and, in turn, how their choices affect yours

• Creating a useful department budget that will easily fit into your organization’s budgeting process

• Making timely and cost-effective decisions