Training

Planning and Scheduling for Operations and Maintenance

Don Armstrong Senior Consultant, IDCON, Inc.
(Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

This reliability planning and scheduling course consists of lectures and unique hands-on exercises in both maintenance planning and operations and maintenance scheduling. Operations and Maintenance professionals will learn how to combine production and maintenance schedules to achieve increased production volume due to less downtime and quality losses. The course will discuss daily/ weekly planning and scheduling as well as shutdown planning and scheduling for operations and maintenance.

This course especially illustrates the importance of close interaction between planning and scheduling and spare parts management, preventive maintenance, the operations and maintenance partnership and production scheduling.

Details of this course will include planning and scheduling meetings, work requests. prioritization of work, backlog management, maintenance planning, joint scheduling (operations and maintenance), execution of work, feedback and key performance indicators.

Topics

• The role of planning and scheduling in relation to other business processes
• Planning and sheduling benefits and definitions
• Operations and maintenance respective roles in planning and scheduling
• Planning systems
• Work order planning
• Backlog management
• Prioritization and scheduling systems
• Shutdown/ turnaround planning and scheduling
• Key Performance Indicators (KPI)