Planning and Scheduling

Manage smarter.

Learn the most effective maintenance planning and scheduling practices to efficiently use labor; manage parts, tools, and drawings; reduce time spent waiting for jobs to be assigned; and streamline complex down-days and shutdowns. During this course, you will learn to:

• Define roles and responsibilities in the planning and scheduling process;
• Effectively identify and prioritize work;
• Perform equipment walkdowns;
• Sequence tasks;
• Estimate time;
• Manage backlog;
• Schedule routine daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks;
• Implement and complete the process for planning and tracking complex down-day and outage events.

Walk away with a clear understanding of your current planning and scheduling performance and a customized improvement plan.

Two days of training followed by:

OUTAGE!
The Planning and Scheduling Experience

Outage! is a unique, interactive simulation game that replicates a real maintenance outage with the typical problems of parts, workforce constraints, quality control concerns, contractor issues, scheduling dilemmas, work orders, safety, risk assessments, and more. The game is fun; yet, it drives foundational concepts and meaningful approach strategies, and it reinforces planning and scheduling concepts and best practices.

Facilitated by your instructor, Outage! becomes a profound learning experience that provides the skills and understanding you need to:

• Drive new improvements and behavioral changes;
• Reinvigorate your planning and scheduling processes;
• Understand the value of planning and scheduling;
• Build respect and teamwork throughout your maintenance department;
• Streamline work flow to produce more time for critical needs.