5012 – Maintenance planning and scheduling
Course Content
This course is built for action. Beyond digital and in-class learning, it includes practical exercises to help you apply concepts immediately and see real-world impact.
You’ll discover how to:
- Identify and eliminate sources of delays and inefficiency in maintenance teams
- Define what makes a job truly “planned and scheduled”
- Apply a clear and effective work priority system
- Recognize the value of work standards in daily operations
- Clarify roles and responsibilities across all stakeholders
- Track and leverage key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Organize and manage your backlog with purpose
- Build a compelling business case to support your strategy
- Use criticality analysis to prioritize equipment and resources
Who should take this course
This course is for professionals who play a role in keeping operations smooth and efficient:
- Planners, schedulers, supervisors
- Maintenance & production leaders
- Operations and warehouse coordinators
Prerequisite
None.
Detailed Course Overview
5012 – Maintenance planning and scheduling
The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling course is designed to help maintenance and reliability team members maximize efficiency, reduce waste, and drive plant performance through better organization and execution of maintenance tasks.
This two-day, action-oriented training equips participants with the skills and tools necessary to take control of the maintenance workflow. Through a mix of classroom instruction, digital resources, and hands-on exercises, attendees will learn how to identify and eliminate the most common sources of delay in maintenance execution.
The goal is to ensure that every job is truly “planned and scheduled”, meaning that all parts, tools, procedures, and labor are ready before the work begins. This structured approach enables smoother execution, higher wrench time, and fewer last-minute disruptions during corrective maintenance.
A major focus of the course is work prioritization and backlog prioritization management. Participants will learn to implement a clear, practical system for prioritizing work orders based on risk, safety, and operational efficiency.
By organizing their backlog in a purposeful way, teams can stay ahead of emerging issues, reduce reactive work, and make better use of available resources. The course also introduces standards for defining, estimating, and preparing maintenance jobs, ensuring consistency and improving communication between planners, supervisors, trades, and operations.
In addition to managing work, this course helps teams understand and apply equipment criticality assessment. By evaluating the criticality of each asset, maintenance and operations leaders can allocate their resources more effectively, focusing efforts on the equipment that matters most to safety, compliance, and production. This prioritization is essential for developing a maintenance strategy that aligns with business objectives and delivers measurable results.
Participants will also gain a deep understanding of maintenance performance indicators. The course covers essential maintenance KPI such as schedule compliance, planning accuracy, backlog aging, and wrench time.
These indicators provide valuable insights into the health of the maintenance process and highlight areas for continuous improvement. Participants will also learn how to track, interpret, and communicate these metrics to support decision-making and justify investments in planning resources and systems.
The training emphasizes the importance of roles and responsibilities across all stakeholders involved in maintenance. From planners and schedulers to supervisors, warehouse coordinators, and production leaders, each person plays a part in ensuring that maintenance is executed efficiently. The course outlines clear responsibilities and introduces practical tools like typical daily agendas, planning checklists, and structured meeting formats to foster collaboration and accountability.
Throughout the course, real-life examples and group exercises allow participants to apply the concepts directly to their work environment. They’ll leave with a stronger ability to build business cases for change, communicate the value of planning and scheduling, and lead improvements that reduce costs and increase asset reliability.
This training is ideal for maintenance planners, schedulers, supervisors, production managers, operations leaders, and warehouse coordinators, anyone responsible for ensuring that maintenance activities are well organized and aligned with plant goals.
Whether your team is just beginning to structure its maintenance processes or looking to take existing practices to the next level, this course provides the foundation needed to transform your planning and scheduling efforts.
There are no prerequisites for attending, and the course can also be delivered privately, on-site, and tailored to your organization’s specific needs. If you’re ready to elevate your maintenance practices and drive measurable improvements in efficiency and reliability, this Maintenance Planning and Scheduling course is the perfect next step.
