Richard "Doc" Palmer - Planning & Scheduling

ADELAIDE 1 day - Face to Face

Created and led by the author of McGraw-Hill's Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Doc Palmer, this workshop reviews the fundamentals and then provides class exercises to illustrate the principles and techniques to achieve success. This 2-day workshop not only covers the theory and vision, but the nuts and bolts of how planning and scheduling work. Throughout the event, the course encourages the thoughtful development of planning and scheduling activities within your own facility by your team. This course allows class participants to take specific practices home to their own organizations to implement a new planning organization or dramatically improve an existing one.

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Course Outline

An in-depth look at all aspects of maintenance planning & scheduling functions. Maintenance leaders will share a common language and vision. The course covers the collaborative approach to decision making and cohesion with other departments required for overall success.

The Business Case for Planning and Scheduling
Principles and Concepts of Effective Planning
Principles and Concepts of Effective Scheduling
Handling Reactive Maintenance
Computerized Maintenance Management System
Integrating Proactive Maintenance Activities: Preventive, Predictive, Projects
Integration of Planning within other Aspects of Plant Operation
The Work Order System and Effective Workflow
Planning and Scheduling Exercises
Materials Management Interaction including Staging or Kitting
Measuring Work and Performance – Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
Establishing and Mining Equipment History
Shutdown Planning
Barriers and Aids Analysis to Establish and Maintain Effective Planning and Scheduling

Learning Outcomes

Throughout the event, the course encourages the thoughtful development of planning and scheduling activities within your own facility by your team. This course allows class participants to take specific practices home to their own organizations to implement a new planning organization or dramatically improve an existing one. It's not unusual for companies to see a significant jump in efficiency & effectiveness from their maintenance planning, scheduling & crafts / trades after completing this workshop.

This course will help your maintenance department reduce the percentage of reactive work, improve the work output & historical information capture and help your crafts / trades more effectively reduce your work order backlog & get onto more proactive activities.

Recognizing that most plants already cover their reactive maintenance, almost all of any extra work order completion is purely reactive work. So planning and scheduling answers the question: "How can I do extra proactive work when I have my hands full with reactive work?" Discover and take home these practices to your company.

1 day Brochure:

Note: This is the 1 day brochure.
The 1-day workshop has a bit less discussion on topics and does not cover materials management or shutdowns.

About Richard "Doc" Palmer

After a career of over 25 years as a practitioner, Richard "Doc" Palmer began helping companies with their maintenance planning and scheduling efforts. Today, companies worldwide benefit from Doc Palmer's skills and expertise.
Doc Palmer has four decades of industrial experience primarily as a practitioner within the maintenance department of the Jacksonville Electric Authority, a major United States electric utility. From 1990 through 1994, Palmer was responsible for overhauling the existing maintenance planning organization. The resulting success played a role in expanding planning to all crafts and stations owned and operated by the utility.

Publisher McGraw-Hill subsequently sought out Palmer to author the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, published in 1999 and now in its fourth edition (2019). Palmer also directed the purchase and implementation of a CMMS and administered the preventive maintenance program.

Doc Palmer has delivered a number of well-received maintenance articles and presentations for industry. Currently, Palmer provides consulting, education, guidance, mentoring and training for companies internationally for maintenance planning success.

Doc Palmer is a registered professional engineer with a master's degree in business administration. He is also a CMRP, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Handbook — 4th Edition

FAQ's

WHAT COMES WITH THE COURSE?

Each trainee receives a hard copy of his latest course manual

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This workshop prepares maintenance personnel to become successful. Maintenance Planners and Schedulers who support the Planning and Scheduling function should attend this workshop. The class gives company Change Agents a firm grip on how to implement a successful program. Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Operations Managers and Supervisors, Purchasing, Materials Management, and Maintenance Engineers, IT Support, and other Reliability personnel including shop floor Crafts / Trades and Maintenance Admin should also attend to understand their involvement necessary to support the improvements.

WHEN DO I NEED TO REGISTER BY?

Bookings open until the Friday before the event unless sold out

WHO CAN I CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION?

Jeff +61 409 535 239 or info@sirfrt.com

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