PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND PRIORITISING MAINTENANCE WORK
Course Background
The primary objective of a planned maintenance system is to ensure that maintenance work is planned and scheduled effectively to improve work efficiency, service delivery through the reduction of downtime and minimise the cost of maintenance.
Planned maintenance should therefore eliminate unplanned maintenance. However maintenance work being preventive, corrective and adhoc in nature presents challenges to achieve this primary aim. The inability to plan and schedule maintenance work effectively leads to inefficiencies in service delivery, increasing user dissatisfaction and high costs as planned resources have to be re-deployed for adhoc work. This problem is expected to increase with ageing of existing buildings and is further compounded by the lack of inspection skills resulting in more adhoc (fire-fighting) work.
Planned maintenance should therefore eliminate unplanned maintenance. However maintenance work being preventive, corrective and adhoc in nature presents challenges to achieve this primary aim. The inability to plan and schedule maintenance work effectively leads to inefficiencies in service delivery, increasing user dissatisfaction and high costs as planned resources have to be re-deployed for adhoc work. This problem is expected to increase with ageing of existing buildings and is further compounded by the lack of inspection skills resulting in more adhoc (fire-fighting) work.
Course Objectives
The course will provide the knowledge and skills to undertake effective maintenance planning and scheduling and will cover the following:
- Maintenance Fundamentals & Maintenance Systems
- State-of-the-Art in Maintenance Work Execution and Productivity & Cost Issues
- Maintenance Work Types & Nature of Work
- Long, Short & Annual Maintenance Plans and Contingency/Adhoc Plans
- Information Required for Effective Maintenance Planning & Information Sources
- Effective Maintenance Scheduling Involving Work Prioritisation and Adaptive Scheduling
Course Outline
- BUILDING MAINTENANCE OVERVIEW
- The Maintenance Concept
- Systems of Maintenance
- Sources of Ineffective Costs
- TYPES & NATURE OF MAINTENANCE WORK
- Preventive Work
- Corrective Work
- Ad-hoc Work
- MAINTENANCE PLANNING & INFORMATION REQUIRED
- Objectives of Maintenance Planning
- Maintenance Planning Challenges & Process
- Information for Maintenance Planning
- MAINTENANCE PLANS & EFFECTIVE PLANNING
- Planning Considerations
- Effective Maintenance Planning
- Types of Maintenance Plans (Long Term, Medium Term, Short Term)
- MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING & WORK PRIORITISATION
- Objectives of Maintenance Scheduling
- Challenges in Maintenance Scheduling
- Work Prioritisation & Adaptive Maintenance Scheduling
Who should take this course?
The course will benefit those who have a vested interest in buildings including:
- Developers
- Building Owners
- Government Officials
- Architects
- Engineers
- Project Managers
- Quantity Surveyors
- Contractors / Sub-Contractors / Suppliers
- Property Managers
- Facilities Managers
- Maintenance Managers
- Management Corporations
- Town Councils
- and Others
Course Accreditation and Certificate of Attendance
The course has been approved for 7 PDU units under the PE Board Continuing Professional Development programme. Attendance certificates will be issued; they may also be suitable for meeting the CPD requirements of other relevant professional bodies not operating a CPD course accreditation system.
