The Fundamentals of Maintenance Management

Maximise asset lifetime—build proactive maintenance systems that deliver reliability and value.

This practical 5-day programme empowers maintenance and engineering professionals to move from reactive fire-fighting to structured, efficient work management. Through interactive sessions, real-world exercises, and tools like KPIs, CMMS, and strategic planning, you’ll leave ready to implement reliable work planning, scheduling, and asset excellence in your organisation.

• Stop wasted time and money: Shifting from breakdowns to planned and preventive maintenance reduces disruption and lowers costs.
• Boost asset reliability: Understanding equipment failure patterns and measuring performance creates confidence and operational resilience.
• Build a robust maintenance function: Clear roles, processes, and data-driven tools embed continual improvement and organisational stability.

• Maintenance and reliability engineers, planners, and supervisors
• Operations and production managers responsible for equipment uptime
• Asset management and HSE professionals focused on risk and compliance
• Managers and analysts implementing CMMS, performance KPIs, or organisational change

Over five immersive days, you will:

1. Set solid foundations – Grasp maintenance goals, asset lifecycle management, failure patterns, and maintenance strategies
2. Measure & manage performance – Use PDCA cycles and balanced scorecards to track uptime, MTBF, MTTR, wrench time, and other KPIs
3. Establish work management routines – Learn the full work order lifecycle: approval, planning, scheduling, execution, and feedback
4. Plan and schedule effectively – Create preventive and predictive maintenance programmes, plan tasks, prepare work packs, and prioritise jobs
5. Coordinate teams & contractors – Define roles, manage resource allocation, and oversee supplier and contractor operations
6. Manage materials & spare parts – Apply ABC categorisation, EOQ, and spare parts optimisation within MRO systems
7. Use CMMS tools smartly – Capture equipment data, historical records, and key documentation to support decision-making
8. Strategise and budget – Develop maintenance roadmaps, forecast budgets, perform gap analysis, and link to reliability initiatives