Course description
Managing Planning and Scheduling
In Managing Planning and Scheduling, participants build a work management program based on Reliability Excellence best practices. The course is designed for a Lead Planner or Department Manager to establish a proactive work management program or to transform an existing program into an effective, results-producing department that positively impacts maintenance costs, plant reliability measures and employee morale.
Managing Planning and Scheduling examines topics like designing a work management program strategy, developing standard processes and work, establishing program measures, managing staff development, and planning program improvement. Learners will walk away with a solid foundation for an effective maintenance work management program.
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Who should attend?
People in the following roles should participate in this training:
- Lead and senior planners
- Planning Department Managers
- Maintenance Managers
- Reliability Change Agents
- Reliability Managers
- Continuous Improvement Managers
Training content
Explain the business case for proactive work management
Build a work management process flow chart and responsibility matrix
Draft a work management program strategy: objectives, key performance measures, targets, reporting and monitoring methods
Develop governing principles and standard procedures for CMMS data entry and use
Outline a management of change process for job plans
Describe a disciplined approach to managing work for a planned shutdown
- Scoping and validating work, project management, communication, reviews, lessons learned
Develop an implementation plan to establish or transform a planning program, including:
- Establishing program standards and templates
- Incorporating visual management into your program
- Job performance feedback and continuous improvement
- Backlog management
- Managing the people side of change (change management)
Develop an audit and continuous improvement strategy for the planning program
- How trends in manufacturing and technology impact planning/scheduling
- How the planner interacts with failure data and root cause analysis efforts
- How equipment criticality and risk management influence maintenance strategy
Certification / Credits
All students completing a class at the Life Cycle Institute will receive a certificate of completion awarding CEU’s.
Reviews
Average rating 5
Well designed and engaging, with expert knowledge that made the course interesting and entertaining.
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Life Cycle Institute
Life Cycle Institute is Life Cycle Engineering's human performance practice that integrates learning, change management and project management to teach people how to implement best practices for asset maintenance, reliability engineering and MRO materials management. The Institute offers 16 courses...
I thoroughly enjoyed the class. I learned a lot to move forward in my current role and gained direction to add to the program we have currently established.