Maintenance Best Practices Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the current maintenance environment and identify performance gaps using structured assessment criteria during the course.
• Assess asset criticality by considering safety, operational, financial, environmental, compliance, and service-delivery impacts.
• Evaluate the suitability of reactive, preventive, predictive, condition-based, and proactive maintenance strategies for different asset types.
• Develop maintenance plans that define tasks, frequencies, standards, resources, responsibilities, and completion requirements.
• Apply work planning and scheduling principles to improve maintenance readiness, coordination, and execution quality.
• Design practical maintenance performance indicators that support management review and continuous improvement.
• Improve the quality of maintenance work orders by defining clear job scopes, priorities, failure information, and closeout requirements.
• Strengthen preventive maintenance programs by reviewing task effectiveness, interval selection, and recurring failure trends.
• Implement basic spare-parts and materials control practices that improve maintenance responsiveness and inventory reliability.
• Align maintenance priorities with organizational risk management, asset management, safety, compliance, and budget objectives.
• Assess contractor and service-provider performance using measurable maintenance quality, safety, and delivery criteria.
• Develop a time-bound maintenance improvement action plan for implementation after the course.

Who Should Attend

Learning Outcomes

• Explain how maintenance best practices contribute to asset reliability, operational continuity, safety, compliance, and cost discipline.
• Assess maintenance maturity and identify priority areas for improvement within a department, site, or asset portfolio.
• Classify assets according to criticality and use the results to support maintenance prioritization.
• Select suitable maintenance strategies based on asset function, failure characteristics, risk, and operating context.
• Develop preventive maintenance plans with clear tasks, frequencies, standards, labour requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Improve maintenance work orders by documenting the problem, scope, resources, risks, job steps, and completion information.
• Apply planning and scheduling practices that increase the proportion of prepared and coordinated maintenance work.
• Review recurring failures and maintenance history to identify opportunities for root cause analysis and reliability improvement.
• Establish practical performance indicators for planned work, schedule compliance, backlog, repeat failures, equipment availability, and maintenance quality.
• Apply basic principles of spare-parts management, materials readiness, and inventory control for critical maintenance activities.
• Communicate maintenance priorities, risks, and performance findings clearly to management and operational stakeholders.
• Produce a structured maintenance best-practice improvement plan relevant to the participant’s workplace.

Course Outline