Maintenance Management Level 1

Introduction to Maintenance Management (2-days)

Some of what you will learn:

Ways to cut the cost of your repairs by teaching planning techniques to your trades people
How to insure uptime with Reliability Centered Maintenance and how to use work sheets
How to use 3 TLC techniques to slash breakdown
Specific techniques for Maintenance in the 21st Century
16 reasons to outsource. Choosing and using contractors (as a competitive advantage)
In-sourcing and TPM: what is it, how and when to do it, and who to do it with
How to use the CMMS to help manage operator centered maintenance activity
Maintenance budgeting and effective financial modeling
When outside contracts are indicated and how to select them
How to compute the optimum intervals for component replacements and other preventive/predictive maintenance efforts

This introductory course is based on the popular text The Handbook of Maintenance Management.
Program includes a 25 page spiral bound work book

Course Agenda Day 1

Strategic Assessment of Maintenance Operations
- How to examine your current state of maintenance operations?
- How to find dominant maintenance operations patterns?
- What are the tools for evaluating the importance and consequence of maintenance patterns?
- How do assets deteriorate?
Improving Maintenance Reliability -the keystone to maintenance excellence
- How to improve maintenance reliability through Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques?
- What is the step-by-step approach to RCM?
PM (Preventive Maintenance)
- What is preventive maintenance – really?
- How to install and run a preventive maintenance system that meets your requirements and improves overall reliability?
- How to configure PM to be the most effective in high uptime and lowest cost?
- How to use TLC (Tighten, Lubricate, Clean) to minimize breakdowns (75% of breakdowns are from defects in these areas)?
Predictive Maintenance, Conditioned-Based Maintenance Techniques
- What are the four major predictive maintenance techniques?
- How does predictive maintenance and technology "foresee” future maintenance requirements?
- How to use predictive maintenance to minimize usage of resources?
- What are the practical predictive maintenance tools and how to use them?
- How to use statistics to improve maintenance operations?

Course Agenda Day 2

Maintenance In-sourcing
- How, why, when and where to build internal partnerships with other departments?
- How to apply the state-of-the-art "Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)” strategies and techniques?
Working with Vendors
- How to apply common sense strategies for working together with vendors (contracting, stock room, vendor partnership and buying maintenance parts)?
- What are the strategies for building "win-win” long-term relationships?
- How to analyze and evaluate suppliers across several categories?
Maintenance Economic analysis and Quality Improvement
- How to evaluate your quality improvements?
- How to align maintenance quality improvement with overall organizational quality goals and objectives?
- How to analyze maintenance alternatives
Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
- How to leverage on technology to make maintenance more responsive and effective?
- How to make the CMMS work for you instead of you working for it!
- How to implement a competent, performance improving computer maintenance management system?
Maintenance Planning Coordination and Scheduling
- Why is planning for maintenance operations so important?
- How to add 50% to the size of your crew without hiring anyone.
- How to incorporate proper planning into your maintenance function?
- What are the step-by-step guidelines for integrating maintenance planning and scheduling with building’s usage, fleet schedules and production schedules?
Bench marking
- What are benchmarks?
- What are the specific formulas, performance measures and techniques?
- How do you stack up?
Putting it All to Work
- What are the specific steps you need to take to make this seminar work for you?
- How to apply your new skills to specific situations?
- What are the resources you should gather and maintain to ensure effective maintenance operations?