Because nothing in life takes place before thinking it through, no worthwhile maintenance task can take place before planning (naturally including any planning done by supervisors and artisans).

Maintenance planning fulfils a crucial role in the organisation. Maintenance success is absolutely dependent on good scheduling of maintenance work, proper task planning, and timely procurement of parts and materials. The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in achieving this essential outcome.

The course has as purpose to prepare Maintenance Planners for this. It includes training in the various scheduling techniques, such as simple time slot scheduling, detailed network scheduling of maintenance shutdowns and projects, as well as batch workshop scheduling. It also includes training in task planning methods, procurement methods, use of maintenance systems, task flow optimization, maintenance information analysis, and the support of maintenance management through well defined and formatted reporting.

The course is extremely hands-on, allowing candidates to practice the skills learnt through practical applicationduring four to five group assignments per day. This is augmented by an application project following course completion.

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for maintenance planners, maintenance supervisors, artisans and those who manages them.

The reason for including the wording 'those who manages them' in the sentence above is that we often find that some class of maintenance people are sent on courses without the person managing them being able to activate their newly acquired knowledge after the course. Artisans are added above as the effect of maintenance planning and the information fed back to the Computerised Maintenance System is to a large extent dependent on their knowledgeability of and support to the Maintenance Planning function.

Please contact Hendrik Keller for further information:

Office: 087 808 5858
National: 086 11 00 295
Cell: 082 855 8016
Fax: (012) 548 6103
e-mail: hendrik.keller@m-tech.co.za

To get a brochure on any of these courses phone Annerie Terblanche at 016 932 1629 or 084 516 7166, or contact Hendrik Keller for information (above).