Effective Maintenance Shutdowns

DESIGNED FOR

All maintenance, engineering, and operations personnel responsible for planning and managing effective maintenance shutdowns. Participants should have foundation skills in maintenance planning and scheduling.

YOU WILL LEARN

Development and control of maintenance shutdown work scope
To control work before and during the maintenance shutdown
To use available computerized scheduling tools
To use manpower planning and control
How to measure progress of the maintenance shutdown
To manage worker productivity
How to measure maintenance shutdown performance
How to improve performance on future maintenance shutdowns

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course is designed to teach the skills of maintenance shutdown management as described in the Facilities Maintenance Management Competency Map. You will develop shutdown planning strategies and will develop the organizational structure necessary for managing successful shutdowns. Case studies and real world examples will be used to reinforce the techniques learned in the course. Students will be asked to bring examples from their maintenance shutdown experiences to be used as case studies during the course.

COURSE CONTENT

Maintenance shutdown terms and maintenance shutdown basics
Shutdown planning strategy: establishing goals and objectives, working cooperatively across departments, developing maintenance shutdown procedures
Management planning: components of the maintenance shutdown plan, planning for effective communications
Developing a management strategy, organization, and responsibilities
Work scope development and strategy
Planning and scheduling controls: participation and teamwork, the overall plan, specifying tasks, shutdown and start-up plans, work scheduling, optimizing the plan, handling emergent work, work control documents
Computerized scheduling tools
Manpower planning and control: using in-house resources, balancing teams and skills, managing scarce and critical resources