Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control

In today’s dynamic operational environments, maintenance teams face a constant interplay of planned and unplanned activities. This course equips participants with the principles and practical tools to manage that complexity through structured maintenance planning and efficient scheduling.

You’ll learn how to scope and resource jobs effectively, align schedules with operations, and distinguish between the roles of planners and schedulers to boost team productivity. The program also emphasizes continuous improvement—using data to refine plans, streamline procedures, and ensure readiness before work begins.

Course Structure

– Entrance Assessment: 40 multiple-choice questions to gauge baseline knowledge
– Hands-On Simulation (Part 1): Participants will engage in a Lego-based activity simulating the end-to-end planning process, including job scoping, resource provisioning, and documentation.
– Hands-On Simulation (Part 2): A second Lego exercise illustrates the scheduling process, focusing on sequencing, crew allocation, and constraint resolution.
– Exit Assessment: 40 multiple-choice questions to evaluate learning outcomes and skill acquisition

This course is designed for planners, schedulers, supervisors, and engineers who want to build a stronger technical foundation and drive operational readiness through better planning and scheduling practices. Whether you’re in asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, utilities, or oil and gas, this course provides a real-world framework to elevate maintenance performance.

Top Learning Objectives

  • Develop a world-class maintenance planning and scheduling regime
  • Utilize a systematic and structured analysis using best practices in maintenance planning and scheduling
  • Synchronize maintenance and operations planning
  • Prevent Production loss and unnecessary delays
  • Optimize the management of maintenance backlogs
  • Maximize profits with effective maintenance management and equipment life cycle
  • Understand the roles and duties of a planner and scheduler
  • Learn how to sell planning and scheduling to management
  • Identify critical path methods for maintenance
  • Develop priority systems to deal with emergencies in maintenance planning and scheduling

Who Should Attend?

VPs, Directors, Division Heads, Managers, Superintendents, Specialists, Leaders, Supervisors & Engineers from the following departments:

  • Maintenance
  • Engineering
  • Reliability
  • Shutdowns & Turnarounds
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical engineering
  • Asset Management
  • Asset Integrity
  • Operations
  • Plant management
  • Production
  • Process

Trainer's Background

  • Acclaimed maintenance and integrity specialist with more than 30 years of experience and has led his teams to many maintenance and engineering excellence awards.
  • Author of several Maintenance & Reliability Books. He also developed and implemented several blue chip organizations across the world.
  • He also Implemented several key maintenance projects in Brazil, USA, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Angola, Malawi, Bangladesh, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and Kenya, with training in “World Class Maintenance Practices”

EVENT SCHEDULE

Face-to-Face Masterclass
Date: 23 – 25 February 2026
Time: 8:30 – 16:30
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

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Combine this training with 2-Day “Machinery Failure Analysis Masterclass”

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“The training was very good. Knowldege of subject was perfect and examples and case studies are very good.”

– Sociadade Mineira do Luele