Maintenance Planning & Scheduling & Cost Control in the Digital Transformation Age Masterclass
Achieving reliable performance through effective planning, shutdown management, and KPIs.
22nd – 25th March 2027 Live Online
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. Break free from symptoms of a reactive, "fire-fighting" culture:
Loss of Throughput & Backlog
Frequent breakdowns, workers spending hours waiting for equipment to become available, overrunning shutdowns, and swelling backlog.
Spares & Resource Inefficiency
Critical spares not readily available, component replacements taking over scheduled work, and inefficient utilization of contractors.
Exhaustion & Data Deficit
High overtime with exhausted crews, plus chronic failure recurrences caused by the complete absence of reliable, good-quality data.
💡 The Tangible Result: Applying the principles of this course will result in the immediate improvement of plant productivity and availability, alongside strengthening cross-functional partnerships between maintenance, operations, procurement, and engineering.
Key Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this 4-day masterclass, delegates will understand how to:
Understand the critical contribution made by the maintenance function in achieving overarching business objectives.
Establish structured roles, clear accountabilities, and procedures that guarantee organizational effectiveness.
Address every element of job planning: craft hours, BOM/spares, standard jobs, logistics, documentation, and quality.
Forecast available craft hours honestly, assign work to the proper level, and exploit scheduled windows for maintenance.
Develop lock-tight schedules with full operations buy-in to ensure program compliance while minimizing risk.
Convey proper work order closure disciplines to build dependable equipment history through accurate CMMS data input.
Master critical success factors, critical-path sequencing, and project management controls for major plant shutdowns.
Contain scope creep during outages and implement practices to identify, mitigate, and control operational shutdown risks.
Create daily execution practices that systematically track progress, manage shift handovers, and minimize delays.
Identify tangible engineering opportunities to extend shutdown intervals, directly driving up production asset uptime.
4-Day Masterclass Agenda
Comprehensive Step-by-Step Practical Curriculum
- Real difference between planning and scheduling; why merging them is the root cause of failure.
- The proactive work management cycle: identify, plan, schedule, execute, close, improve.
- Recognised planning principles translated to shop-floor realities.
- Economics of no planning: wrench time, reactive %, overtime & expedited parts.
- Roles & accountability: planner, scheduler, supervisor & production interface.
- Symptoms of broken systems: planner as senior mechanic, ignored schedules, fake PM compliance.
- Work request quality: what a planner must have before planning starts.
- Criticality-based prioritization: ranking by production, safety, and cost impact.
- Backlog as a tool: ready backlog, total backlog, and backlog weeks per craft.
- Reading backlog health: under-resourcing, over-resourcing, or hidden work.
- Screening & approval: what enters planning vs straight to execution.
- Balancing corrective, preventive, and improvement work queues.
- Job scoping: turning vague requests into defined, executable tasks.
- Estimating craft hours: methods, standard jobs, and why estimates drift.
- The job package: instructions, BOM parts, tools, permits, drawings, and safety.
- Job kitting & parts staging: eliminating delays that destroy wrench time.
- Standard job plans and plan libraries: plan once, reuse many times.
- Feedback loop: capturing execution reality at component level.
- Scheduling to capacity: forecasting craft hours honestly.
- Weekly schedule: how to build it, who owns it, and how to lock it.
- Daily schedule & coordination meeting: cadence, rules, discipline.
- Production-maintenance interface: negotiating access & conflicts.
- Schedule compliance: measuring, defending, and diagnosing breaks.
- Absorbing emergency break-in work without collapsing schedule.
- Why turnarounds overrun: planning failures that cost the most.
- Scope development and scope freeze: controlling event inputs.
- Building the work list and critical path: sequencing & milestones.
- Resource, contractor & material readiness: long-lead items.
- Execution control: daily progress, delay tracking, shift handovers.
- Post-event review: capturing cost, duration & rework.
- CMMS backbone: data structures planning and scheduling requires.
- Where digital helps: AI-assisted planning, condition data vs hype.
- Metrics that run the function: schedule compliance, wrench time, estimate accuracy, reactive %.
- Cost visibility: planned vs reactive costs and backlog valuation.
- Reactive-to-proactive transition: sequencing and avoiding stall.
- Multi-site governance: standard job libraries and audit rhythm.
Who Should Attend?
This masterclass is specifically structured for plant, site, and operational personnel including:
- Maintenance Managers & Supervisors
- Maintenance Planners & Schedulers
- Reliability Engineers
- Mechanical & Electrical Engineers
- Shutdown / Turnaround Coordinators
- Operations & Production Managers
- CMMS & Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Professionals
Investment & Registration
Event Code: CS-MPS-010 | 22nd – 25th March 2027 | Live Online
Standard Delegate
USD 2,195Per single delegate
All pricing excludes all taxes
Group Package
USD 1,932Book 3 to 5 delegates
Rate per delegate · 12% Discount Applied
Corporate Package
USD 1,646Book 6 or more delegates
Rate per delegate · 25% Discount Applied
Enrollment Request Form
Class size is strictly limited to 20 seats. Reserve your place below.
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