Course Schedule & Pricing
| Date | Mode | 1 Delegate | 2 - 4 Delegates | 5 or More | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13–15 Jul 2026 | Onsite | $3,295 | $2,895 | $2,795 |
Course Overview
Operating a sustainable, wealth-generating entity in a demanding economic environment requires capital-intensive assets to deliver efficient and reliable performance. Enterprise asset management enables world-class operation, with maintenance strategy playing a critical role. Leading companies leverage maintenance to drive profitability, impacting capacity, quality, responsiveness, safety, environmental performance, and production cost.
Strategic maintenance planning and scheduling is fundamental, enabling effective asset care activities for both short and long-term equipment needs. Critical activities include day-to-day maintenance and service day execution, supported by skilled craft availability. Service day management involves complex risk, justified work scopes, structured decision making, and quantitative economic assessment.
This masterclass integrates maintenance planning and scheduling, highlights digitalisation opportunities, and demonstrates practical applications for daily operations and service days within a structured procedural framework to increase plant profitability.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand maintenance’s critical contribution to business objectives.
- Learn roles, processes, and procedures ensuring organisational effectiveness.
- Address all elements of job planning: standards, logistics, documentation, spares, and quality.
- Determine scheduling capacity and exploit maintenance opportunities.
- Assign work to the appropriate maintenance level and establish work management practices.
- Develop daily, weekly, and monthly schedules with operational commitment.
- Understand service day management’s critical success factors and control scope creep.
- Apply project management principles to service day execution and identify, mitigate, and control risks.
- Reap benefits from AI, machine learning, and IIoT to improve reliability and extend service day cycles.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between maintenance planning and scheduling?
Maintenance planning involves organizing the "what" and "how" of asset care—identifying the necessary parts, tools, procedures, and safety requirements. Scheduling, on the other hand, deals with the "when" and "who"—coordinating the timeframe, labor, and equipment availability to execute the planned work efficiently.
How does digital transformation impact plant maintenance?
Digital transformation introduces cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These innovations shift strategies from reactive or calendar-based preventive maintenance to highly intelligent, predictive maintenance, significantly reducing downtime and lowering overall costs.
Why is cost control critical in enterprise asset management?
Effective cost control ensures that maintenance budgets are optimized without compromising safety, quality, or production capacity. By preventing unplanned breakdowns and tightly controlling scope creep during service days, organizations can protect their profit margins and increase overall plant profitability.
What are the benefits of predictive maintenance?
Predictive maintenance uses real-time data and AI algorithms to identify potential equipment failures before they actually happen. The key benefits include prolonged asset lifecycles, maximized operational uptime, optimized spare parts inventory, and a drastic reduction in catastrophic, costly breakdowns.