Drafting and Reviewing Asset Care Plans

Course Objectives: To understand/appreciate:

• What drives maintenance
• Availability and reliability
• The evolution of maintenance thinking
• Asset functions, functional failure and failure modes
• Failure patterns and tactics to address them
• What different tactics can do

Participants will learn how to

• Apply a systematic approach to developing and reviewing Asset Care Plans
• Get the tasks done as intended
• Refine and improve tasks to capture and apply lessons learned

The course is designed to meet the needs of maintenance professionals and change agents tasked with improving the maintenance value for money. These include:

• Maintenance Planners and deputies
• Maintenance Manager/supervisors
• Key leaders from each Maintenance craft
• Key Operations Supervisors
• CMMS Administrator or key users
• Maintenance support assistants
• Change agents and engineering business sponsors

• Drivers
• Availability and Reliability
• Maintenance evolution
• Understanding failure, functional failure, failure modes
• Maintenance Infrastructure & Strategy
• Overall strategy
• Objectives, KPI’s, Key processes

• Maintenance plans
• Asset functions
• Asset plans for individual assets
• Failure patterns & tactics to combat them
• CBM and the P-F curve
• The role of preventive and restorative tasks.

• Planned Maintenance Routines (PMR)
• PMR to Asset Care Plan relationships
• Ensuring the tasks envisaged are those done
• Stepped Approach to compilation
• Tools and methods utilised
• Worked example and recording

• Application of the stepped approach
• Desired outcomes
• Worked examples and exercise.
• Continuous Improvement
• Selecting targets
• Appropriate metrics
• Delegate CI plans
• Objective
• Realistic target within 1/3/6/9 months
• Making the case and gaining approval
• Setting and agreeing milestone
• Do it

The workshop will be led by Colin Sanders.

Colin served a Royal Air Force apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanical engineering technician. After serving his apprenticeship he progressed through trade (Licentiateship of City & Guilds) and supervisory management development (MISM, management and instructor training) to become a senior maintenance and operations manager and planner.

As a practitioner Colin has supported maintenance improvement and change management programmes as a project manager, advisor, and facilitator. He has also developed and delivered training programmes in support of a range of operational excellence projects. Colin’s extensive experience has seen him advise and lead business process reengineering projects including the implementation of performance measurements to clarify operations and maintenance accountabilities and support the delivery of business improvement goals.

Industry experience includes food and drink, manufacturing and processing, engineering, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and fabrication. This has seen him work with a range of well respected and award winning companies such as BMW, Bombardier, The Ministry of Defence, Ikea, Johnson and Johnson, Fuji Biomass, Kepak Foods and Formica.