Planner's School

Who should attend?

Trades Staff
Specifically people being promoted or considered for promotion to higher duties and need to develop their competency in maintenance engineering

Maintenance Coordinators, Planners and Team Leaders
Responsible for managing work, allocating work and ensuring work is done Budget responsibility for maintenance Leadership of maintenance trades staff Develop shutdown plans and maintenance schedules Responsible for detailed performance reporting of maintenance

Engineering Managers, Maintenance Engineers and Asset Owners
Overall responsibility for budget management Responsible for setting strategy for asset management and the maintenance program Accountable for the maintenance performance of the company Accountable for the reliability of operations and what is needed within their company to assure this level of reliability Responsible for engineering systems such as the works management system to control maintenance work

Production Superintendents and Operations Managers
Accountable for the line or operational output of the assets Accountable that the company is achieving a return on investment from the asset base and hence will influence systems and organisations to achieve this Need to understand how the care of assets supports their operations

Benefits in attending

Attending Planner's School will enable you and your team to:

Refine your asset dictionary for complete asset identification and correct maintenance
Align your maintenance and production schedules ensuring access to equipment
Accurately analyse your risks and costs
Optimise cost reduction through improved labour efficiency
Better pre-plan parts, access and certification programming
Schedule appropriate inspections and anticipating known failure rates
Avoid the risk of over maintenance by identifying inefficient and ineffective routines
Develop appropriate bills of materials to assist the planning, ordering and supply of parts
Correctly manage engineering stores
Write clear PM procedures to address the engineering requirements
Develop meaningful KPIs
Identify the necessary reports to drive and sustain maintenance best practice
Integrate inspections and condition monitoring into the PM program
Enable smooth transition from breakdown maintenance to planned maintenance
Better job estimating and scoping and the integration with the budgetary process
Effectively execute shutdown management planning
Get Planner's to work with other stakeholders
Build a planning vision - short term, medium term and long term
Prioritise jobs
Resource scheduling to better package work and optimise availability

Networking

Planner’s School is the meeting place for Maintenance Planner’s and Schedulers to share common challenges, experiences and success stories. Like-minded professionals with one thing in common: sharpening skills to master maintenance planning and scheduling. There is much interaction and exchange:

Connecting at lunches and teas all served on site for maximum contact and close proximity to facilitators.
Access to Facilitators, a place to gather round and pick the brains of the experts. Discuss your challenges. Ask the difficult questions.
Hear at first hand what the facilitators think. Enjoy the interchange in casual conversation.