Maintenance Planning And Scheduling & Cost Control in the Digital Transformation Age - Masterclass
6th - 8th, April 2026
Le Royal Meridien, Abu Dhabi - U.A.E.
Meet Our Trainer
Andre Coetzee
Mr. Andre has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and trainer in Asset Management, Maintenance, and Shutdown/Turnaround operations, working with leading organizations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Northwest University, South Africa, and began his career at ISCOR Limited, where he advanced to Manager Planning & Development (Maintenance), leading major shutdowns and capital projects with strong exposure to project management, maintenance strategy, and HSE. In 1998, he founded Radiant Operations International (Pty) Ltd, where he developed Impact Driven Asset Management (IDAM) successfully applied across steel, mining, cement, water treatment, and service industries and has since delivered engagements in Botswana, India, New Zealand, Qatar, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia
Learning Outcomes Key Topic
Delegates will have the opportunity to expand their capabilities in the following ways:
- Understand maintenance’s critical contribution to business objectives
- Learn roles, processes, and procedures ensuring organisational effectiveness
- Address all elements of job planning: standards, logistics, documentation, spares, and quality
- Determine scheduling capacity and exploit maintenance opportunities
- Assign work to the appropriate maintenance level
- Develop daily, weekly, and monthly schedules with operational commitment
- Understand service day management’s critical success factors
- Apply project management principles to service day execution
- Manage scope and contain scope creep
- Identify, mitigate, and control service day risks
- Establish work management practices and maintain optimal backlog levels
- Ensure proper work order closure and accurate data for equipment history
- Reap benefits from AI, machine learning, and IIoT
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability and extend service day cycles
Reason To Attend This Training
Business goals impose organisational and technical demands, requiring integration of technical and managerial strategies. Many businesses remain stuck in reactive maintenance cycles, where planning and scheduling are ineffective or absent. Symptoms include breakdowns, waiting times, reactive work, unavailable critical spares, high overtime, inefficient contractual resources, and poor data quality. Effective planning and scheduling significantly improve productivity, reliability, and availability, and strengthen partnerships between maintenance, production, procurement, engineering, and other stakeholders
Course Details
Session 1: The role of planning in asset management:
- - Managerial concepts
- - Principles of asset management
- - Wealth producing capacity
- - Organizational aspects
Session 2: Planning function:
- - Planning fundamentals
- - Foundation of a planned maintenance system
- - Asset care requirements (determination of scope)
- - Tasking, Activities
- - Bill of materials, special tools and support services
- - Costing
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Session 3: Opportunities for execution of asset-care activities:
- - Maintenance strategies
- - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- - Tasks identification: non intrusive to operations
- - Tasks identification: intrusive to operations
- - Exercise: Practical application of failure mode and affects analysis
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Session 4: Source of asset management tasks (plant demand):
- - Improvement and modifications
- - Repairs and restoration
- - Prevention and lubrication
- - Condition assessment of equipment
- - Previously deferred maintenance tasks
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Session 5: Maintenance work orders:
- - Function of work orders in a maintenance environment
- - Principles of work order design
- - Repairs and restoration
- - Exercise: Compilation of a work order and job package
Session 1: Asset management: financials
- - Time value of money
- - Estimating and budgeting
- - Cost Control
- Life cycle cost (LCC)
- - Concept of value in asset management
- - Exercise: Contribution of maintenance to the value chain
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Session 2: Risk within asset management practices:
- - Risk management
- - Risk identification and quantification
- - Risk response strategies
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Session 3: Computer Supported Enterprise Asset Management
- - Leveraging the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
- - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,
- - Concept of the digital twin, and
- - Industrial internet of things (IIoT) and SMART Maintenance.
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Session 4: Critical Spares Management Optimization:
- - Classification of spare parts,
- - Quality Control, and
- - Exercise: optimization assessment
Session 1: Impact Driven Asset Management (IDAM):
- - Operations in a complex environment and the sea of detail
- - Impact Driven Asset Managemen model
- - Machine map (line of sight)
- - Stages on the drive to peak
- - Reaping the benefits of Impact Driven Asset Management
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Session 2: Problem solving as maintenance planning and scheduling perspective:
- - Principles of problem solving
- - Root cause analysis techniques
- - Wicket problems and how to expose and address them
- - Co establishment of a problem solving culture
- - Exercise: root cause analysis case study
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Session 3: Scheduling function:
- - Five Immutable Principles of Program Success
- - Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
- - Critical path method (CPM)
- - Critical chain method
- - Scheduling maintenance activities
- - Roles and responsibilities of the planning team
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Session 4: Overview of key performance indicators and control of the maintenance process:
- - Overview of key performance indicators (KPIs)
- - Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- - Strategic and tactical performance indicators
- - Scorecards and reporting
- - Exercise: practical application of KPIs
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Session 5: Maintenance planning and scheduling (MPS) practices and skills:
- - Protecting the integrity of data
- - The next step: what is yours?
Course Fees
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