Maintenance planning and reliability basics

Move from firefighting to planned, reliable maintenance that keeps equipment running.

In many plants and facilities, maintenance teams spend most of their time reacting to breakdowns, which drives up cost and downtime. This programme introduces the core practices of planned, reliable maintenance: choosing the right maintenance strategy for each asset, planning and scheduling work, managing spares, keeping useful records and finding the root causes of repeat failures. It is practical and aimed at supervisors and planners who want to make immediate improvements on their sites.

Who it is for: Maintenance supervisors, planners, technicians and engineers in plants, utilities, facilities and fleets.

What it covers: Maintenance strategies and when to use them; Planning and scheduling maintenance work; Spares, records and maintenance systems; Root cause analysis of repeat failures.

Maintenance strategies: Reactive, preventive and predictive maintenance, Criticality: which assets matter most, Basic condition monitoring, Choosing the right strategy.

Planning and scheduling: Work requests and work orders, Job planning: tasks, parts and tools, Weekly scheduling and backlog, Coordinating with operations.

Records and spares: Using a maintenance management system well, Failure codes and history, Critical spares and stock levels, Maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs).

Reliability improvement: Root cause analysis of repeat failures, Defect elimination, Lubrication and basic care routines, Building an improvement plan.

Outcomes: Fewer unplanned breakdowns; Better use of technicians’ time; Clear records that support improvement.

Is this a technical engineering course? No. It focuses on planning, organisation and reliability practices, not equipment-specific technical skills.

Does it cover a specific CMMS? We cover how to use any maintenance system well. We do not train on one software product.

Can it be delivered on site? Yes. On-site delivery lets us use real equipment and work orders as examples.

Who should attend? Supervisors, planners and senior technicians, ideally with an operations representative.

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