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Use the highly successful planning methods, practices and processes that deliver great
work productivity, outstanding equipment reliability, and maximum tool time

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Training for

High Reliability & Maintenance Performance
Email us to register for the next course in your city
(Save money by running the course in-house if you have 4 or more people.)

Maintenance planner training for high reliability and productivity that

saves your operation $100,000s in maintenance costs & downtime losses
This maintenance planner course is packed with the insights and the powerful techniques of successful maintenance
planning and scheduling for high equipment reliability. The comprehensive content gives you best practice maintenance
planning and scheduling training. Your maintenance planner training covers all aspects of maintenance planning and
scheduling systems and explains how to produce great task productivity and maintenance work quality. You learn what to
do and why to do it so you can get production plant back into operation faster and running for longer. You learn how to
quickly move your maintenance planning and scheduling performance towards the Pacesetter results in the table below.
Key Performance Indicator

Poor Performance

Pacesetter Performance

Hands on tools time % possible

Jobs per man-day (Mech, I/E)
Testing jobs overdue %
Mechanics per Planner
Maintenance Workforce Weeks Backlog
% Planned Work
Schedule Compliance
Urgent Job Requests

20
1,4
20
8 - 10 : 1
8 10 weeks
< 50%
< 50%
70%

50
3,8
2
20 - 27 : 1
4 weeks
> 80%
> 90%
5%

High quality maintenance planning is a vital ingredient for top

quality maintenance work performance and high equipment
reliability. At the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling training
course for High Reliability and Maintenance Performance you learn
what is done in the best job preparation and work organisation
processes. You discover the good techniques, practices and
methods that deliver successful maintenance planning and
scheduling results. You learn the specific requirements necessary to
deliver highly effective maintenance work planning and scheduling
outcomes. The great Chinese philosopher Confucius said, "In all
things, success depends on previous preparation, and without such
preparation there is sure to be failure." Too much time, production
and money can be lost if the preparation is not done well. Knowing
how to do maintenance planning and scheduling successfully is one of the many benefits you
get from this world class training course. When you do maintenance planning and
scheduling well you maximise your maintainers tool time with jobs ready to go, equipment
prepared and safe to work on, and all materials, resources and information at-hand so
tradesmen walk from job to job, doing top quality work, right-first-time.

Maintenance planner training course that teaches how

to lift reliability and lower maintenance costs

MORE TRAINING
Plant Wellness Way to
Maintenance Management
Mastery
World Class Machinery and
Rotating Equipment
Reliability
Lifecycle Asset
Management the Plant
Wellness Way
Applied Reliability
Engineering for Operating
Plant Improvement
Operational Excellence the
Plant Wellness Way

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There is a great difference between being a top Maintenance Tradesman and a top
Maintenance Planner. The skill sets are completely different. This maintenance planner
course prepares you to be top-class maintenance planner and scheduler with world class
maintenance planning training covering the systems and processes you need to use. The maintenance planner course and
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provides the information, the knowledge and the skills you need to have to be successful in this incredibly important role.
Documented evidence confirms that proper maintenance planning and scheduling can deliver you the following benefits
when compared to planning on-the-run:

Up to 100% more work done

Tool time can rise to 50% of maintainers day
Planned work is 4 12 times more efficient
Planned work is 3 9 times less cost than reactive work

On larger jobs an hour of planning saves 3 5 hours of

execution
90% of your work can be planned
95% of work can be done when first scheduled

The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training for High Reliability and Maintenance Work Performance course
teaches you how to prepare work, coordinate resources and people, install the right systems and schedule maintenance
activities so maintenance work runs smoothly, maintainers deliver high-quality workmanship and are highly productive,
and your machines and equipment operate reliably for far longer.

Discover how to improve maintenance planning and scheduling results

At a time when the engineering workforce is growing older and retiring, during an industry-wide and world-wide skill
shortage, this maintenance planning training course teaches your maintenance planners how to organise maintenance work
well and use fewer maintainers while lifting operating uptime and throughput for less cost. The course trains Attendees on
the key points and best practices of planning and scheduling so when they return to work they can use the right methods
and practices in the operation. Substantial and comprehensive course notes are provides and the full PowerPoint
presentations are given to every attendee for future reference.

Great testimonials and unqualified support from across industry

People who attended the training said the following about what they experienced:
Very good has changed the way I thick about maintenance planning. Helped to give me
confidence that Im heading in the right direction in planning. Usually I find if one thing of
use is learnt per day then value is achieved; value has been achieved! Also good notes, CD and
risk analysis template. Some very good concepts to take back to work which could help our
business. Very interesting, more than enough information for a 3-day course. The course
members from industry were very impressed with the content. Being a planner for only three
months, I found this course excellent and relevant to my position. Heaps of information put
out. Very informative. Eye-opener in some areas. Excellent, will help with my future job
prospects.
BHP Billiton (Iron ore miner), Fortescue Metals Group (Iron ore miner), Woodside Energy
(Oil and Gas producer), BGC Construction (Building products manufacturer), Wesfarmers
Premier Coal (Open-cut coal miner), Pearlsteet (Maintenance services), Albany Pine
Plantations (Woodchip supplier), Esperance Port Authority (Bulk materials), Talison Mining
(Tantalum Miner), Anglogold Ashanti and KCGM (Gold Mining), Onesteel (Steel Roll Mill), Hans Smallgoods, Hyne
Timber (Saw Mill), Defence Materiel Organisation, Offshore Su Tu Den Group (Vietnamese O&G), Japanese
Vietnam Petroleum (Vietnamese O&G), Canberra Hospital (Facility Management), Nickel West (Nickel Refining),
Sandvik (Machine Shop), Riyadh Cement (Saudi Arabia) Mermaid Marine (Maritime Services) Griffin Coal

Course Content Overview

Day 1 Maintenance and Reliability: The
Foundations of Maintenance Planning
The Purpose of Maintenance
Defect and Failure True Cost
Purpose of Maintenance Planning & of Scheduling
How Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Reduce Costs
Risk Management Fundamentals
Plant and Equipment Life Cycle
Equipment Criticality Analysis
Activity 1 - Equipment Criticality Example
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Activity 2 FMEA example
Equipment Reliability Basics
Creating high Equipment Reliability
Important Engineering & Equipment Care Standards
Activity 3 Applicable Maintenance Standards
The 6 Maintenance Types and when to use them
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Precision Maintenance for Maximum Failure-Free Life

Day 2 Planning Maintenance Work

Activity 4 Planning Activity
Review and Discussion of Activity 4
Necessary Planning Office Systems and Methods
Data Capture for Maintenance
Specifying Workmanship Standards
Purchasing Parts and Materials
Inventory and Stores Management
Project Management Principles and Practices
The Work Planning Process
Shutdown and Outages Best Practice
Activity 5 Planning Activity
Review and Discussion of Activity 5

Day 3 Work Planning (continued) and Scheduling

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Failure and Defect Prevention Maintenance Procedures

Controlling Work Process Variation with 3T Limits
The Accuracy Controlled Enterprise (ACE)
Standardized Planning and Scheduling Procedure
Activity 6 Develop Standardized Planning Procedure
Activity 7 Planning Activity with Standardized Procedure
Review and Discussion of Activity 7
Planning and Maintenance Key Performance Indicators
Activity 8 Developing Performance Indicators

Scheduling Maintenance Work

Using Visual Management
Relationship Building
Production Requirements and Limits

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One Plan for Production and Maintenance

Job Task Scheduling
Scheduling Work Face Activities
Prioritising Work Orders
Manpower Scheduling and Leveling
Resources Scheduling
Preparations before the Job Starts
Addressing On-site Issues and Changes in the Plan
Monitoring Job Performance to Plan
Tracking the Schedule
Backlog Management
Activity 9 Scheduling so Work is Done Right & On-Time
Review of Scheduling
Review of Course and Key Issues
End of Course

Details of Your Presenter:

The Course Presenter, Mike Sondalini, is a mechanical tradesman, a professional
maintenance engineer, a maintenance planner and a maintenance manager. In
engineering and maintenance since 1974, his career extends across original
equipment manufacturing, beverage production, steel fabrication, industrial
chemical manufacturing, quality management, project management, industrial
asset management and industrial training. His book Plant and Equipment
Wellness is published by Engineers Media, a subsidiary of Engineers Australia.
Mike takes attendees through a carefully structured course during which he
imparts key understandings and skills needed for successful planning and
scheduling. But more than that, he uses his years of experience as a maintenance manager to focus on the critical success
factors of what to do, and how to do it quickly and well, so the maintenance crew can swiftly and safely minimise cost and
time loss. He helps organisations build sound business risk management practices, introduce world-class lean practices,
develop ultra-high reliable enterprise asset management systems and instill the precision maintenance skills needed to
continually improve plant uptime. Mike helps attendees do their planning and scheduling roles so they can improve
maintenance performance through wise use of resources, in less time, and for the least downtime.

Those EARLY BIRDS who register secure their seats and save 20%
For EARLY BIRDS who book and pay a month in advance, the 3-day maintenance planning and scheduling for high
reliability and maintenance performance course costs $2,400 plus GST. Standard price is $3,000 plus GST and payment
must be received before the course start date. Included in the price are softcopy of the presentation slides and course
notes, arrival tea/coffee, morning and afternoon tea/coffee with finger food and a light lunch. YOU MUST BRING
YOUR OWN LAPTOP OR PAD to view the slides, as there is no printed course book handed out during the training.
Call now to get a place and then make your payment in time to get a seat. It is best to register immediately for the course
if you want to be sure of a seat. Seating is limited and is allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Complete your
registration form then choose your payment option and scan the registration form into an email to [email protected]. Book yourself and your key people into the course now. You can contact us on mobile 0402 731 563 to
confirm places are still available.

You get Full Protection of a 100% Money Back Guarantee

All Attendees are afforded maximum protection at our seminars, courses and workshops by a 100% Money Back
Guarantee. If, for whatever reason, you believe your expectations have not been met, your attendance fees will be totally
refunded in full. As further compensation you are also allowed to keep all materials handed out during the presentation.
(Guarantee is subject to booking fee being received in full by the due date.)

More Course Information and On-Site Training Details

Course registration is from 8am on the first day with the course starting at 8.30am and finishing at 4.30pm each day.
Please check local road maps, or the venue website, to find nearby parking. A certificate of training is provided at the end
of the course. Please contact us by email at [email protected] or by telephone on +61 8 9457 6297, or
cell/mobile +61 8 (0) 402 731 563 to get more information and answer any questions that you have. We can also run our
training course on-site in your operation. Contact us to get a free quotation and practical advice.

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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for High Reliability

and Maintenance Performance 3-Day Training Course

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Standard Payment is required in full prior the course start

date. Attendees MUST BRING A LAPTOP to get a
softcopy of the PowerPoint slides and course book, with
unrestricted usage rights within their company, along with
morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea provided each day.

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notice of cancellation, 70% refund between 30-15 days, 50%
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Detailed Content of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Course

Day 1

Maintenance Strategy and Reliability: The Foundations of Maintenance Planning

The Purpose of Maintenance
Sustaining Production
Equipment Reliability

Failure Avoidance
Defect Elimination

Defect and Failure True Cost

The Purpose and Role of Maintenance Planning and of Scheduling
How Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Reduce Costs
The Strategic Business Importance of Planning Maintenance
Plant and Equipment Life Cycle
Life Cycle Costs / Life Cycle Profits

Equipment Condition Monitoring

Risk Management Fundamentals for Maintenance

Equipment Criticality Analysis identify plant and equipment at risk
Activity Do a simple Equipment Criticality example
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) - identify parts at risk and necessary maintenance.
Activity Do a simple FMEA example
High Equipment Reliability Fundamentals
Maximum Allowable Downtime
Calculate True Downtime Cost per Hour

Increasing Equipment Reliability

Increasing System Reliability

International Engineering and Equipment Care Standards

Alignment and Distortion

Lubrication

Balance and Vibration

Bearing/Shaft Clearances
Looseness
Contamination and Cleanliness

Activity Identifying Applicable Engineering and Maintenance Standards for the Site
Maintenance Types
Preventive, Predictive/Condition Monitoring, Breakdown, Corrective, Block (Shutdown),
Opportunity
Proactive Inspection and Detection Rounds/Watch-keeping
Precision Maintenance for Maximum Failure-Free Life
Creative Disassembly
Precision Assembly
Precision Installation
Using Condition Monitoring to Test Work
Quality
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Day 2

Planning Maintenance Work

Activity Planning Activity and Review and Discussion of Activity
Necessary Planning Office Systems and Methods
Work Order Costing
Plant and Equipment Information
Planning Documents and their Control
Equipment Records and their Control
Job Procedures

Specifying Workmanship Standards

Standardized Work
Setting the Standards for a Job

Identifying Necessary Skills for a Job

Failure Preventing Job Procedures

Job Records and their Control

Equipment Performance Trending
Job Performance Trending
Track Planning Performance & Benefits
Job, Work and Personnel Safety

Data Capture for Maintenance

Inventory Purchasing and Management
Refurbishment Decisions and Costs
Important Purchasing Information
Useful Store Control Practices

Good Storage Practices

Working with and Developing Suppliers

Project Management Principles and Practices

Identify Work Priorities
Set Project Goals and Objectives
Specifications and Contracts
Bar (Gantt) Charts

The Work Planning Process

Site Investigation
Root Cause Analysis
Failure History
The Required Documentation
Specifying Important Information to Capture
During the Job
Developing Job Procedure with Required
Outcomes and Measures
Specifying Materials
Specifying Subcontract Resources
Specifying Tools and Ancillary Equipment
Specifying Human Resources
Build-in Time for Quality Work
Developing the Job Plan and Times

PERT Charts (Critical Path)

Checkpoints and Checklists
Preparing for All Eventualities

Setting Job Performance Requirements

Specifying Job Quality Standards
Safety Considerations
Calculate Maintenance Cost vs Budget
Compiling the Job Pack
Job Task Planning
Scheduling the Job Plan
Job Planning and Review Meetings
Preparations Before the Job Starts
Complete the Checklists
Job and Workmanship Feedback
Post-Job Review
Lessons Learnt Meeting
Continuously Improving the Planning

Shutdown and Outages Planning

Using Project Management Methodology
Successful Shutdown Management Strategies
Activity Planning Activity and Review and Discussion of Activity

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Day 3
Failure Prevention and Defect Elimination Maintenance Procedures
Controlling Work Process Variation with 3T Work Quality Standards
Activity Develop Accuracy Controlled Maintenance Procedure
Standardizing Planning Procedures and Scheduling Procedures
Activity Develop Standardized Planning Procedure
Activity Planning Activity and Review and Discussion of Activity
Planning and Maintenance Key Performance Indicators
Maintenance Effectiveness Indicators
Equipment Performance Indicators
Production Indicators
Planning Indicators
Job Quality Indictors

Supplier Performance
Inventory/Store Management
Safety
Top-performance Industry Benchmarks

Activity Setting, Measuring and Trending the Types of Performance Indicators

Scheduling Maintenance Work

Visual Management in All Occasions
Relationship Building
Identify planning/scheduling value add
Bring groups together to cooperate

Request others improvement ideas

Production Requirements and Limits

The Production Plan

Liaison with Production

Scheduling into the Production Plan

Important Time Management and Scheduling Concepts

Clear Job and Work Order Scheduling
Prioritise Work Orders based on Operational Risk
Manpower Scheduling and Resources Scheduling
Activity Design standardized Scheduling Process
Preparations before the Job Starts
Addressing On-site Issues and Changes in the Plan with Team-based Risk Analysis
Monitoring Job Performance and Schedule
Backlog Management
Activity Scheduling to Get the Job Done Right First Time
Review of Course and Key Issues
Feedback Questionnaire

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