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Course Overview:

This course emphasizes the critical role of Planning and Scheduling in building a proactive maintenance culture. Although often overlooked, the Planning and Scheduling function is one of the most vital positions in controlling costs, improving productivity, and ensuring reliability. By the end of this program, delegates will understand how to move from reactive maintenance to a proactive,
process-driven approach, ensuring improved reliability, reduced costs, and enhanced safety across their operations.

Learning Objective:

• This seminar will teach how to plan and schedule maintenance work effectively. Lean how to structure a maintenance organization to allow planners/schedulers to successfully and avoid reactive maintenance environment.
• They will understand the correct process for work management from the initial work order
  to job execution. Will understand the roles and responsibilities of planners/schedulers. Learn
  how to rank and prioritize maintenance work along with understanding Key Performance
  Indicators that they will need to track the planning and scheduling process. Most
  importantly, to will learn the steps to implement planning and scheduling at their site.

Methodology

The adaptive planning framework (APF) methodology, also known as adaptive planning management (APM), is an agile project management methodology designed with the inevitability of change in mind.

That means that using adaptive project framework methods, teams must try to anticipate the risks and prepare for the unexpected in their plan. They need to understand that critical component is constantly in flux and continuously re-evaluate results and decisions with these moving parts in mind.

This requires extensive communication with all stakeholders and collaboration, similar to other agile methodologies.

This instructor-led training will include building plans and schedulers through simulators and roleplaying.

Benefits

• The students learn best practices in maintenance planning and scheduling used by manufacturing leading companies.
• Know how to scope work to increase efficiency and minimize unscheduled downtime.
• Understand how to enhance the quality of the work.
• Improve on communications between operations and other organizations.
• Develop and track Key Performance Indicators within maintenance and operations.

Who Should Attend?

• Maintenance Planners and Schedulers who support the Planning and Scheduling function should attend this workshop.
• The class gives company Change Agents a firm grip on implementing a successful program.
• Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Operations Managers and Supervisors, Purchasing, Materials Management, Maintenance Engineers, IT Support, and other Reliability personnel should also attend.
• Shop floor Craftsperson’s and Maintenance Clerks are encouraged to participate to
  understand their involvement in supporting the improvements.