Event Date: July 28-30 2025
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Course Outcomes:
  • Improve understanding of best practices currently used in Planning and Scheduling to support Maintenance, Reliable Manufacturing, and Asset Management.
  • Identify and define opportunities to implement effective planning and scheduling strategies in their workplace.Develop structured work management processes, including work identification, prioritization, scheduling, and execution to improve efficiency.
  • Optimize maintenance investment by aligning maintenance schedules with production needs to reduce downtime and maximize asset performance.
  • Enhance workforce productivity by improving job preparation, material availability, and coordination between maintenance and production teams.
  • Apply preventive maintenance and reliability-centered scheduling to improve equipment uptime and extend asset lifespan.
  • Measure and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to track and improve maintenance planning and scheduling effectiveness.
  • Use real-world case studies and interactive exercises to apply best practices and solve practical maintenance challenges.

Why you cannot miss this masterclass

The course is an interactive training course aimed at giving trainees the overview of the best practices currently in use for Planning and Scheduling to support Asset Management, providing Reliability of Manufacturing, and optimizing maintenance investment.

Planning and scheduling is the hub that allows achieving cost effective maintenance organization on a long term basis, and is the cornerstone to enable excellence in uptime, preventive maintenance, materials management, utilization of craftspeople, maintenance cost control, coordination of maintenance schedules with production schedules, engineering in reliability, and much more.

With the knowledge gained during the training, you will be able to improve your tradespeople’s effectiveness, reduce equipment downtime and optimize overall maintenance cost over time.

Effective planning and scheduling are critical to ensuring seamless maintenance operations, minimizing unexpected breakdowns, and maximizing asset reliability. Without a structured approach, organizations often face inefficiencies, increased downtime, and escalating maintenance costs. This course equips participants with practical tools and proven methodologies to develop a robust maintenance planning framework, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently and maintenance activities align with production goals.

By attending this training, you will gain hands-on experience with real-world case studies and interactive exercises, allowing you to apply best practices directly to your workplace. Whether you are looking to enhance workforce productivity, streamline maintenance schedules, or improve cost control, this course provides the expertise needed to drive long-term operational success and reliability.

Course Coverage

Strategic Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Introduction and Welcome

Module 1: The foundation

Module 2: What and How – Planning

Module 3: Who and When – Scheduling

Module 4: Execution

Module 5: Continuous Improvement

Module 6: Support Processes

Module 7: Review and Wrap up

 

 

This course is an active exchange between attendees and the instructor, using actual examples and exercises that are directly applicable to the body of knowledge.

  • Approximately 45% of time is spent on the core instructional presentation.
  • Approximately 55% of the time is spent on exercises, discussions and direct application examples.

The instructor and participants have an ongoing dialogue to ensure that concepts and methods taught are retained and can be put into use by the participants.

Target Audience

This course is designed for Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners, Heads, Team Leaders, Inspectors, Contractors and Coordinators of:

  • Mechanical, Electrical, Production or Project Engineers
  • Construction/Contractor Managers and Supervisors
  • Maintenance Managers, Supervisors, Planners and Schedulers
  • Materials Management Managers/Supervisors
  • Maintenance Engineers (Functional and Reliability)

From the following industries:

  • Power & Utilities
  • Mining
  • Oil & Gas
  • Exploration and Production
  • Chemicals
  • Manufacturing
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Power Generation
  • Agriculture
  • Petrochemicals
  • Support Services
  • Consulting Engineering

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