Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control
A maintenance technician on an unplanned job can lose much of the shift waiting for parts, permits, information or access. This programme gives planners, schedulers and supervisors a disciplined process to identify, plan, kit, schedule and control maintenance work, with materials ready and progress measured, so that more of each day becomes productive work.
01 - 05 November 2026
Dubai
5 Days
USD 4,500In many maintenance organisations planning means typing work orders and scheduling means reacting to the loudest request. Jobs reach the field without clear scope, parts are ordered after the job starts, operations release equipment late, and the weekly schedule is abandoned by Tuesday. Planners are pulled into expediting and breakdowns, so the planning function never builds the job library and history that would make the next job easier.
This programme follows one piece of work from the moment it is identified to the moment it is closed and analysed. It covers work identification and prioritisation, job planning and estimating, materials and kitting, weekly and daily scheduling with operations, execution and control, and the measures that show whether planning is working. It also shows how reliability, maintenance and MRO materials management depend on each other.
Built on recognised practice. The programme references EN 13306 maintenance terminology, EN 15341 maintenance key performance indicators, the best practice metrics published by the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP), the ISO 55000 asset management series and widely used planning and scheduling principles, such as separating planning from execution and scheduling from forecast labour capacity.
Decisions this programme improves. Which jobs to plan in detail and which to leave to the craft; how to set priority fairly; how much work to load into the weekly schedule; when a job is ready to schedule; which parts to stock and which to order per job; and how to respond when the schedule breaks.
How it is delivered. Twenty hours across five sessions, built around one running case: a plant maintenance team with a large backlog and low schedule compliance. Participants write job plans, build kits and bills of materials, load a weekly schedule against available hours, run a daily coordination meeting and analyse the week's results. Exercises use spreadsheet and CMMS-style templates.
In-house option. For organisations, the programme can be tailored to your own CMMS, work order process and backlog data, and delivered to planners, supervisors, stores and operations staff together so that the new process is agreed by everyone who has to follow it.
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