Certificate Course in
Advanced Maintenance Management

Leading industrial organizations are moving away from reactive (“fix-it-when-it-breaks”) maintenance into predictive and preventive maintenance (“anticipating, planning, and fix-it-before-it-breaks”) as part of a life cycle focused Asset Management approach. This evolution requires well-planned and executed actions on several fronts. Advanced Maintenance Management training course provides great opportunities to optimize the performance of your assets and maintenance processes to achieve maximum return on investment (ROI). By reducing costs and downtime, while achieving high levels of safety and quality you will be able to get the best out of your assets. 

This Advanced Maintenance Management training course introduces participants to the skills and knowledge areas of essential advanced maintenance management technologies and methodologies. It demonstrates both the background to each technology, and its practical application to achieve the best bottom-line results. 

This PetroKnowledge training course will highlight:

• Asset Management: a business-like approach of maintenance management
• Using KPI’s and the balanced scorecard to measure performance
• Assessing Asset Management maturity and determine the roadmap for improvement
• The business case for Asset Management improvement - cost/benefit thinking
• Understanding risk and an introduction to a Risk Based Maintenance approach
• Life Cycle Management with aspects like Systems Engineering and RAMS requirements
• Life Cycle Costing
• The latest concepts and techniques of Predictive and Smart Maintenance

By the end of the Advanced Maintenance Management training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of Asset Management as a framework for managing and optimizing maintenance
• Identify common maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and develop the maintenance department scorecard
• Assess the organizational Asset Management maturity and develop a roadmap for improvement
• Examine the organizational and managerial considerations for highly effective Risk Based Maintenance
• Understand Life Cycle Management and the way Systems Engineering and RAMS could support this
• Determine the Life Cycle Costs of an asset
• Demonstrate the latest concepts and techniques with regard to Predictive and Smart Maintenance

This PetroKnowledge training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals involved in the area of Advanced Maintenance Management, but will greatly benefit:

• All professionals involved in Maintenance Management
• Professionals involved in work planning & control
• Maintenance Supervisors
• Maintenance Engineers
• Maintenance Team Leaders and Managers
• Operations Team Leaders and Managers

The Advanced Maintenance Management training course will be conducted along interactive training principles. There will be a variance of lectures and practical individual and group exercises. Experiences from different areas will be discussed. There will be many opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences. At the end of the training course we will execute a group wise maintenance assessment resulting in a jointly developed shortlist of improvement actions.