Effective work preparation and planning of interventions and major outages

However, in many companies, by preparing more efficiently and planning better, there is still room for improvement in order to do more work with the same number of people. The more you reduce the time spent searching for parts, tools or drawings,... on the one hand, and the more you reduce the waits in the assignment and distribution of work on the other hand, the more it will be possible to deploy maintenance teams efficiently and to reduce and optimise production downtime.

This three-day course explains and demonstrates the benefits of work preparation and planning. You will learn: how to coordinate your work preparation and planning processes for both your routine maintenance and planned shutdowns, how to get the most out of your maintenance team by increasing efficiency and performance, and how to implement important elements in your planned shutdown management processes. 
In this course you will learn the differences between organising routine maintenance and organising planned outages.

The course also includes an interactive game "I-Plan", in which you experience the principles of an effective planned shutdown yourself: In teams, participants are able to simulate the process of managing a planned shutdown from initiation to completion. 

I-Plan is an exciting, interactive and realistic simulation that mimics a planned shutdown with all the typical problems and constraints such as parts management, limited resources, consignment, subcontractor issues, planning challenges, work order management, coordination, etc. On a game board, where logistical and safety constraints get in the way, participants have to prepare and plan the workload with various interactive elements and delimited work areas. The definition and management of the critical path is also explained in the game. 

The game is played within a time limit, and the participants are in a race against time, because... "Time is money"!

• Know the core values and benefits of work management
• Know the different roles and responsibilities 
• Know the different stages of work management 
• Know the benefits of work order analysis and continuous improvement 
• Be able to create a task plan
• Be able to calculate a backlog and understand the value of evaluating it
• Understand the value of controlling routine maintenance planning
• Understand the differences between the organisation and management of routine and planned outages
• Be able to identify the critical path
• Manage the risks associated with planned outages
• Know the different steps of a good management of planned outages
• Know how to measure and evaluate a work order and a shutdown process

This course is designed for maintenance managers, work preparers and planners as well as maintenance supervisors and shutdown managers. Anyone with previous experience of shutdowns who wants to improve their working methods is also welcome.

Mauro Leardi is Maintenance & Reliability Manager. He has an experience of more than 25 years as Manufacturing Supervisor, Methods Officer, Project Leader 6Sigma and CPS Blackbelt (TPM manager), Quality Supervisor, Quality Engineer where he managed projects: BIQ implementation, manufacturing support, audits...) at Caterpillar Inc. He was Maintenance & Reliability Engineer at Allied Reliability before joining I-Care in July 2018 as a trainer.