Event Overview This five day, comprehensive, hands-on course, designed for both the new and seasoned planner, gives you all the tools you need to help you kick-start your P&S system. In our increasingly competitive marketplace, there is less tolerance for unplanned downtime. Industry is experiencing the pressure of rising costs, foreign competition, and the need to improve work force productivity. Companies must make productive use of all their resources - labor, material, capital - through best maintenance practices. P&S has the greatest profit potential of any maintenance function — a “sure-fire” way to quickly improve maintenance performance and service. Based on current maintenance trends and technologies and our vast expertise, we provide you with information and activities to better equip you to implement P&S. This interactive session includes information on how to build a winning partnership with production, a step-by-step implementation plan, and detailed information on the daily role of the planner. As always, we present real-world illustrations on the fundamentals of P&S to help you increase productivity and lower overall costs — which means faster repairs, less downtime, and greater availability. Planning and Scheduling is a “must have system” in high performance organizations. Experience shows that the “Best of the Best” do the basics very well. Let us help you become “Best of the Best.”

Download PDF Brochure March 15-19, 2009, Dubai Event Overview Who Should Attend Benefits of Attending Seminar Outline About the Seminar Leader Venue and Pricing Register

Who Should Attend

• Maintenance/Facility Managers
• Maintenance Supervisors
• Plant And Facility Engineers
• Maintenance Planners and Schedulers
• Maintenance Staff
• Manufacturing Managers
• Storeroom Managers
• Anyone who coordinates emergency work and unscheduled repairs

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At This Five Day Seminar You Will:

• Learn how to effectively sell planning and scheduling to management.
• Understand the role of a planner in an effective maintenance organization.
• Understand the essential support systems necessary for effective planning and scheduling.
• Learn Marshall Institute’s comprehensive 8 step planning process.
• Learn the 7 planning fundamentals and how to apply them to the learning process.
• Learn how to develop a priority system and RIME chart and understand their importance.
• Understand the importance of developing a partnership with production/operations, purchasing, engineering and other key stakeholders in the planning and scheduling process.
• Learn our proven step-by-step implementation process that combines field-tested change management techniques with a proven planning and scheduling process.

“The program highlighted all principles related to Planning and Scheduling”

Sadeg Al-Abbad

Saudi Electricity Company

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“Sam is a very good instructor and we learned a lot in the workshop”

Angelito V. Teodosio

Aujan Industries Est.

United Arab Emirates

“A systematically organized Planning & Scheduling programme”

P. Sarangarajan

Sogex

Sultanate of Oman

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Introduction

• What “Best in Class” Maintenance Looks Like
• Approaches to Maintenance
• Symptoms of a Broken Planning Process
• Benefits of a Good Planning Process
• The World Class Maintenance Model
• Contributions Planning and Scheduling Make to the Bottom Line

Support Systems

• Equipment Identification System
• Equipment History Program
• Preventive / Predictive Maintenance Requirements
• Starting a PM Program
• Spare Inventory Control Program
• Four Simple Tests for an Efficient Inventory Control System
• Creation, Planning, Scheduling and Completion
  

Role of the Planner / Scheduler

• What Makes a Good Planner
• Duties of Planner
• Organizational Structure
• Meeting Facilitation Skills for the Planner
• Additional Duties of the Planner
  

Scheduling

• Scheduling Methods
• Contributing Factors
• What is Scheduling
• Elements of Scheduling
• Types of Scheduling Tools
• Maintenance Scheduling Worksheet
• Traditional Scheduling
• DIN Squad System
  

Work Prioritization

• The Purpose of Prioritizing Work
• The Use of Criticality Codes
• Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditures (RIME)
• Examples of Priority Systems
  

Measuring Performance

• The Importance and Use of Maintenance Reporting
• Backlog Management
• Calculate Net Capacity and Craft Backlog
• Benchmarking the Planning and Scheduling Process

Roles and Responsibilities of Operations and Maintenance

• The Importance and Advantages of Partnerships
• Shared Responsibilities of the Various Partners
• The Partnership Building Process between Key Stakeholders
  

The Maintenance Planners Improvement Model

• Identify the Continuous Improvement Tools and Techniques
• The Maintenance Planner’s Improvement Model
  

Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages

• The Role of the Outage Planner/Scheduler
• The Four Phases of Planning, Scheduling and Control of Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages
• The Use of Critical Path Scheduling
  

Planning and Scheduling Implementation

• The 10 Step Implementation Process for Planning and Scheduling
• Additional Resources to Assist You in Implementing Planning and Scheduling

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Mr. Tracy Strawn is a Maintenance and Reliability Consultant with over twenty-five years experience in the process and manufacturing industries with most of that time spent in the oil and gas industry – E&P. His experience encompasses maintenance and repair on production and manufacturing equipment including rotating equipment, tanks, vessels, pipelines, instrumentation and controls and high voltage power systems. He has designed and implemented a number of maintenance and reliability strategies and change efforts including CMMS, Planning and Scheduling, PM and PdM programs, Root Cause Failure Analysis, TPM, RCM and Continuous Improvement achieving positive results in both union and non-union environments. Mr. Strawn has worked with all levels of management in developing equipment reliability strategies to deploy to plant and facility operations.

Mr. Strawn has extensive experience in implementing quality improvement, problem solving, and root cause analysis teams. One of the teams he facilitated exposed several thousand bbls/day of lost oil production and developed a strategy to recover. He also designed and implemented a Root Cause Failure Analysis Process for operators, training several hundred hourly employees. One implementation effort resulted in a 30% reduction in pump failures. Using an RCM approach, Mr. Strawn has facilitated teams that have designed and implemented preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for most major process equipment. In addition, Mr. Strawn has led and implemented several large-scale Total Productive Maintenance and organizational Change Efforts. This involved organizational design for the new maintenance organization and structures to facilitate the change effort.. This effort also included training hourly and staff employees in maintenance management, reliability strategies, autonomous maintenance; lean manufacturing techniques and 5S’s.

Mr. Strawn has designed numerous training programs for public offering and in-house training. This would include Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Preventive/Predictive Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance for Operators, Root Cause Analysis and maintenance and change effort overviews. He has also delivered numerous benchmark studies and maintenance assessments for a variety of organizations.

Mr. Strawn has a BS degree from California State University, Fresno and has done Post Graduate Studies in Behavioral Science at California State University, Bakersfield. He also has a certificate in Total Quality Management and is a Certified Quality Engineer. He is a member of the American Society of Quality and Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals. He is an accomplished conference speaker and has written articles for several maintenance publications.

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Venue: Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, Dubai, UAE

Fees: USD 3300/- per delegate

Early Bird Discounts:

Register for USD 3100/- on or before February 15, 2009 and get USD 200 OFF!

Register for USD 2900/- on or before January 15, 2009 and get USD 400 OFF!

Group Discounts:

Register 3 delegates from your organization and the Fourth goes FREE!

In-house Option:

This course can also be delivered as In-house / On-site option. Please contact us if you have a group of employees to be trained at a location of your choice.

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