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Description

Industrial Maintenance: Organising, Preventing and Improving Equipment Reliability

Move beyond purely reactive repairs and build a maintenance organisation that delivers on its commitments

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

The department spends its days putting out fires. One breakdown follows another, the spare part is missing at the worst possible moment, and production blames maintenance for stoppages that the team endures just as much. The preventive plan exists on paper, but it collapses as soon as an emergency arises.

Two days, delivered virtually, to rebuild a workable organisation: knowing your asset base and its criticality, building a preventive plan compatible with the production schedule, structuring the spare parts store, and using intervention history to improve the reliability of the most damaging equipment.

Learning objectives

  • Rank the equipment in your asset base according to its criticality for operations
  • Build a preventive maintenance plan and define its intervals
  • Organise the spare parts store and its replenishment rules
  • Record intervention history in a form that can genuinely be analysed
  • Carry out a failure analysis through to root cause

What makes this programme different

Asset criticality is worked on using the participants' own real equipment
The preventive plan is built during the session and then tested against production constraints
Failure analyses are based on recurring breakdowns brought in by the group

Programme

1The maintenance function

What the organisation genuinely expects from the department

  • Position maintenance within the availability of the production asset
  • Distinguish corrective intervention from preventive intervention
  • Measure the full cost of a stoppage beyond the repair itself
  • Clarify the division of roles between production and maintenance

2Knowing your asset base

Without a reliable inventory, no plan holds

  • Build an asset register covering equipment and its components
  • Classify equipment according to its criticality for operations
  • Compile the technical file for a machine
  • Structure the store and identify safety-critical spare parts

3Building the preventive plan

Moving from unplanned to scheduled work

  • Choose between time-based and condition-based preventive maintenance
  • Define intervention procedures and their intervals
  • Negotiate shutdown windows with production
  • Hand first-line maintenance over to operators

4Analysing and improving reliability

Learning from every breakdown

  • Complete an intervention report that can genuinely be used
  • Carry out a failure analysis through to root cause
  • Track availability and downtime
  • Prioritise reliability actions according to their expected impact

Who is it for

Maintenance technicians and operatives · managers of industrial installations or buildings · production managers involved in the maintenance function.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

12 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.