Maintenance Excellence Core Papers
Skills4Work Maintenance Excellence core papers have been developed to give tradespeople expertise beyond their necessary technical skills. A crucial part of good maintenance is developing a culture of maintenance best practice in the workplace. These papers will enable your tradespeople to understand what constitutes best practice and how to apply it.
Your Benefits
By training your staff in the Skills4Work Maintenance Excellence core papers you will:
- Instil a culture of maintenance best practice in your workplace
- Minimise downtime through effective planning and scheduling
- Increase reliability of key plant and machinery
- Improve productivity through a more structured approach to maintenance
- Use staff time more effectively
The three core papers are stepping stones towards higher qualifications in Maintenance and Reliability. They are:
- Maintenance Best Practice
- Maintenance and Reliability
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Our Learning Methods
These programmes are delivered via workshops, workplace projects and exams
- Workshops are designed to assist your learners to gain the relevant knowledge for completion of assessments.
- Projects ensure students apply what they learn to their workplace; issues are identified and solutions are found giving an immediate return on investment.
- Our tutors offer mentoring and coaching support to reach programme outcomes.
Content Highlights
Maintenance Best Practice
This course sets the foundation for your workforce to adopt international maintenance best practice. It will give a clear understanding of the benefits of adopting best practice, which will have a positive influence on workplace culture and attitudes toward maintenance.
Course content includes:
- The building blocks of Maintenance Excellence from good care and husbandry to renewal planning
- How to work through the stages of maintenance:
- Preventative
- Predictive
- Proactive
- How to introduce a culture of Maintenance Excellence in your workplace
- How to use audit tools to identify workplace improvements
- Management motives for the attainment of business objectives
- Governance, Key Performance Indicators and Measurement
- How to put forwards justification for change based on both tangible and intangible benefits
Maintenance and Reliability
This course will give your maintenance technicians key skills in the area of maintenance excellence. The focus is on progressing maintenance in a structured way from reactive and preventative to predictive and proactive methods. We show how to monitor and analyse plant and equipment data to make positive changes to your maintenance practices.
Course content includes:
- Identification of how equipment deteriorates
- Applying standards to maintenance activities
- Applications of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
- Failure Modes effects and critical analysis
- Using structured decision logic to analyse current, and determine future, maintenance tactics
- Condition monitoring techniques
- Collecting and analysing equipment and plant data
- Using plant data to increase reliability
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
This course will give your workforce the ability to analyse your current planning and scheduling, and identify areas for improvement. Planning and scheduling are often overlooked but have the potential to greatly improve maintenance efficiency. We show how to optimise your planning and scheduling to create the time you need for higher level maintenance.
Course content includes:
- How to free up technicians time with more effective planning and scheduling
- Understanding the work management business process and sub processes
- Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Work orders and scope of work
- Shutdown planning and management
- Project planning and management
- Developing charts for identifying critical paths, slack in the plan, and identifying resources
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