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MRMC-664 | Best Practices for Cost Effective Maintenance

Course Sector : Maintenance & Reliability Management

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5 Days2025-05-052025-05-09Dubai$4,250 Book now
5 Days2025-07-142025-07-18Zurich$5,950 Book now
5 Days2025-10-262025-10-30El Doha$4,250 Book now
5 Days2025-12-142025-12-18Muscat$4,250 Book now

Course Introduction

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. The first module of this workshop delivers many practical and new Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices concepts and tools. You will discuss these concepts and practice using practical tools in case studies and discussion groups. The second module then helps you decide in a rational way which activities are best done with internal resources and which are best out- sourced. Tools and Techniques are introduced which will help you ensure that outsourcing contracts are comprehensive and avoid the common pitfalls. The costs associated with equipment downtime and reduced production can be significant. 

Contracting types

Learning how to effectively manage all aspects of your industrial facility is a must - so is this three - day seminar. The focus of this course are highlighted on understanding outsourcing methodologies, contracting types, including Service Level Agreements, Risk Based Maintenance to ground maintenance contracts, Dashboards and Real-Time Performance monitoring and Key Performance Indicators to monitor performance and continuous improvement, and performance management: how to evaluate the performance with all parties involved. 


Course objective

  •  Evaluate and justify your maintenance programs using Value = Benefit - Cost
  • Apply Life Cycle cost and risk planning to your facility assets
  • Target Maintainability and/or Reliability in the development of your facility maintenance plans
  • Learn the PLAN, DO, REVIEW Cycle of Continuous improvement
  • Understand how to decide Rationally what Maintenance Activities to outsource and what is not
  • Learn the features, functions and benefits of lean mainte- nance contracts
  • Understand the different types of maintenance contracts (incl. Service Level Agreements) and when/how to apply them
  • Learn how to define service levels and monitor the contractor performance
  • Learn how to develop and negotiate a maintenance contract
  • Recognize the pitfalls
  • Understand how to evaluate the delivered performance of all parties involved
  • Learn how to implement Maintenance Contract Management 

Course Outline | 01 DAY ONE

Module (01) Cost Management Overview

  • 1.1 Definitions
  • 1.2 The Total Cost of Maintenance
  • 1.3 Best Practice Reliability
  • 1.4 Maintenance Process
  • 1.5 Elements of Best Practice Asset Management
  • 1.6 Auditing Performance
  • 1.7 Information Requirements
  • 1.8 Maintenance Team Work Skills 

Course Outline | 02 DAY TWO

Module (02) Laying the Groundwork

  • 2.1 Asset Management - Definitions
  • 2.2 Inventory Impact and Costs
  • 2.3 Determining Best Practice PM Frequency
  • 2.4 Selecting Reliability & Maintenance Tactics
  • 2.5 Predictive Maintenance & Condition Monitoring
  • 2.6 Developing Predictive Maintenance System
  • 2.7 Open Discussion Session

Module (03) Applying the Value based Process

  • 3.1 Performance Management
  • 3.2 Four Important Reliability Functions
  • 3.3 Different Sources of Reliability Data
  • 3.4 Lessons learned from Other Industrials
  • 3.5 Recording Failure Properly
  • 3.6 Reliability & Failure Analysis Best Practices
  • 3.7 Failure Analysis Best Practice Software 

Course Outline | 03 DAY THREE

Module (04) Applying the Value based Process

  • 4.1 Criticality Assessment Methodologies
  • 4.2 Best Practice Equipment Life Cycle management
  • 4.3 Life Cycle Reliability assessment Best Practices
  • 4.4 Equipment healthcare contracts
  • 4.5 Developing best practice Maintenance Programs
  • 4.6 Maintenance Program justification techniques
  • 4.7 Cost justification Best Practice software
  • 4.8 Case Study

Module (05) Maintenance Activities Review

  • 5.1 Planning Techniques
  • 5.2 Focusing on High Risks
  • 5.3 Optimizing Spares
  • 5.4 Right type of Maintenance
  • 5.5 History Recording
  • 5.6 Life Cycle Asset Management 

Course Outline | 04 DAY FOUR

Module (06) Outsourcing Considerations

  • 6.1 Business impact of Maintenance
  • 6.2 Consideration in Outsourcing Maintenance
  • 6.3 Activity on Asset Matrix
  • 6.4 Risks Involved

Module (07) Maintenance Contracts

  • 7.1 Maintenance Contract types
  • 7.2 Parties Involved
  • 7.3 The Tendering Process – modern ways of tendering
  • 7.4 Choosing the Right Contractor
  • 7.5 Costing the Service
  • 7.6 Defining Key Performance Indicators 

Course Outline | 05 DAY FIVE

Module (08) Developing the Maintenance Contract

  • 8.1 Vendor Management
  • 8.2 The Contracting Cycle
  • 8.3 specify the required service levels
  • 8.4 Contents of a Maintenance Contract
  • 8.5 Interactive Exercise: Review Some Existing Contracts
  • 8.6 Implementing Contract Management
  • 8.7 Periodic Evaluation & Improvement

Module (09) Grounding & Negotiating the Contract

  • 9.1 Expectations about Availability, Reliability and Costs
  • 9.2 The extensive Preventive Maintenance Schedule
  • 9.3 The Seven Steps to develop a Risk based Maintenance
  • 9.4 Negotiate more effectively lean maintenance contracts
  • 9.5 Negotiating the Contract – Negotiation Ploys
  • 9.6 Negotiating the Contract – Negotiation Tactics
  • 9.7 Interactive Exercise and Role Play of Negotiating 
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BPAC is always given to the delegates after completing the training course,and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%,besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.

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