Maintenance Strategy Development and Cost Effective Implementation

This Maintenance Strategy Development and Cost Effective Implementation training course is a combination of instructor lead topic areas and class discussions. This training course will be conducted along interactive workshop principles. Experiences from different areas will be discussed. There will be many opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences.

By the end of this Maintenance Strategy Development and Cost Effective Implementation training course delegates will be able to:

• Understand the concepts of costs, capital, profit and ROI
• Understand the cost impact of unanticipated failure
• Apply proactive policies to reduce future maintenance costs
• Structure and analyse failure data to reduce repetitive failures
• Identify root causes of unanticipated failure costs
• Reduce resource costs through efficient work management practices
• Decide rationally what maintenance activities to outsource and what not
• Use the features, functions and benefits of lean maintenance contracts
• Use the most applicable type of maintenance contracts (incl. Service Level Agreements) and when/how to apply them
• Define service levels and monitor the contractor performance
• Develop and negotiate a maintenance contract
• Recognize the pitfalls
• Evaluate the delivered performance of all parties involved
• Implement maintenance contract management

This Gulf Rowad Maintenance Strategy Development and Cost Effective Implementation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

• Planners
• Supervisors
• Engineers
• Reliability Engineers
• Maintenance Team Leaders and Managers
• Operations Team Leaders and Managers
• All Professionals involved in procurement and supply chain management
• All Professionals negotiating, managing and verifying maintenance contracts
• Teams who have been assigned the responsibility of establishing a maintenance contract will find it extremely useful to attend this training course as a unit
• Anyone who wishes to update themselves on Maintenance Contracts & Outsourcing

Organisational Impact

The organisation will:

• Gain an understanding of the sources of maintenance costs
• Be able to focus its resources on the events that contribute most to costs
• Gather and structure failure data in a meaningful way
• Eliminate defects that are driving costs
• Understand how to outsource maintenance activities in a professional way
• Be able to apply proper maintenance contracts very fast
• Get instruments to improve maintenance contract management in both short as well as long term
• Will get the most out of the maintenance contracts
• Avoid potential pitfalls regarding developing and managing maintenance contracts
• Save time, money and irritation

Personal Impact

By attending this Maintenance Strategy Development and Cost Effective Implementation training course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the behaviour and events that are driving costs
• Understand how poor reliability is a major factor in the cost equation
• Implement a PM program to improve reliability
• Implement root cause analysis to eliminate defects
• Apply best practice work management to ensure early detection and correction of defects
• Gain understanding and practical insight of outsourcing and contracting aspects
• Improve the level of personal knowledge
• Be more professional in contracting processes and negotiations
• Work more effectively by applying the right approach
• Add value for themselves
• Plan and develop a future career