8th-11th September, 2025
Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai-U.A.E.
Why you should not miss this event:
Many businesses are stuck in a Reactive Maintenance cycle, with planning and scheduling ineffective at best and non-existent at worst.
Symptoms of a reactive, “fire-fighting” culture include:
- Loss of throughput, i.e. breakdowns
- Maintenance workers spend hours waiting on equipment to become available, overrunning the planned shutdown time and growing the backlog
- Scheduled activities mainly consist of component replacements and reactive work
- Critical spares are not readily available
- Overtime is high, workers are exhausted and ineffectively utilized
- Inefficient utilization of contract resources,
- Difficulties in eliminating chronic failures and losses due to the lack of good-quality data.
Applying the principles of this course will result in the improvement of productivity and availability, along with the development and strengthening of partnerships between maintenance, production/operations, procurement, engineering and other key stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion, delegates will understand
- Gain an understanding of the critical contribution made by the maintenance function in achieving business objectives.
- Understand the roles, processes, and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness.
- Address all the elements of job planning, including standards, logistics, documentation, spares, and quality.
- Learn how to determine scheduling capacity and exploit opportunities for maintenance.
- Develop daily, weekly and monthly maintenance schedules with the commitment of operations and all role players to ensure compliance with the maintenance program while reducing risk.
- Assign work to the most appropriate level of maintenance.
- Convey the importance of proper work order closure and documentation to build good equipment history through complete and accurate data input.
- Understand the critical success factors of shutdown management,
- Understand the essential project management principles and processes to manage the overall shutdown,
- Gain skills to manage the scope of the shutdown and contain scope creep,
- Apply practices to identify, mitigate and control shutdown risks,
- Create work management practices to control and manage work execution,
- Identify opportunities to extend shutdown cycles, leading to increased uptime of production assets.