Learn the essential skills to get started with maintenance management.

We offer this training course as an introduction to the principles and techniques required in maintenance management. As a participant, you will gain an understanding of:

  • Key elements that make up an effective maintenance management system
  • The challenges associated with implementing, maintaining and improving this system

Key outcomes

By the end of this course, you will (at a minimum) be able to:

  • Understand the importance of maintenance policies and procedures to ensure alignment with business and operational needs
  • State the principles of sound maintenance work management
  • Understand techniques for managing maintenance performance
  • Describe key tools for maintenance and reliability analysis and improvement
  • Understand key principles underpinning sound materials, parts and inventory management

Course outline

  • What is Maintenance?
  • Why do we do Maintenance?
  • Maintenance interfaces with other Organisational Functions
  • Maintenance Efficiency vs Maintenance Effectiveness
  • Key Maintenance Management and Improvement processes
  • Discussion
  • What is Maintenance Work Management?
  • A Typical Maintenance Work Management Framework
  • Identifying Work
  • Planning Work
  • Scheduling Work
  • Executing Work
  • Completing Work
  • Analysing Work History
  • Reflection
  • The Role of a CMMS
  • Potential benefits of using a CMMS/EAM
  • Master Data Requirements
  • Challenges of ensuring good data
  • Inventory Management
  • Parts Catalogue, Parts List and Bill of Materials
  • Discussion
  • Why Measure Performance?
  • What are maintenance performance measures used for?
  • Typical Maintenance Performance measures
  • Importance of Data Quality
  • Analysing Performance Measures
  • The Performance Management Process
  • Reflection
  • Lean Maintenance Tools
  • 5S
  • Visual Workplace
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Discussion
  • Reliability Centred Maintenance and PM Optimisation
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Discussion
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Introduction to Maintenance Management

  • Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Online
  • From $967.50 excl. GST
  • Online duration: 6 hours
  • Face to face duration: 8 hours
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Assessment

This course is not formally assessed, though it includes exercises and group discussion to reinforce learning and to give participants the confidence to apply knowledge in the workplace.

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