Planned Preventive Maintenance
Reactive maintenance is the most expensive way to keep plant running. This course covers the design and running of a preventive maintenance programme: what to maintain, how often, and how to prove the programme is working.
Course outline
What this programme covers, module by module.
- 01Maintenance strategies compared: reactive, preventive and predictive
- 02Asset registers, equipment hierarchy and criticality ranking
- 03Selecting maintenance tasks and setting intervals
- 04Job plans, work orders and maintenance documentation
- 05Balancing preventive work against corrective backlog
- 06Maintenance performance indicators and what they really show
- 07Using failure history to refine the programme
What you will gain
- Build a maintenance programme from equipment criticality
- Set task content and intervals on a defensible basis
- Structure work orders, job plans and maintenance records
- Manage the balance between preventive and corrective work
- Measure maintenance performance with meaningful indicators
- Improve the programme using failure history
Who should attend
- Maintenance supervisors and planners
- Engineering and technical managers
- Artisans and technicians moving into planning
- Operations managers with maintenance duties
Upcoming sessions
| Date | City | Duration | Fees | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 6 Nov 2026 | Cape Town | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 16 to 20 Nov 2026 | Johannesburg | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026 | London | 5 Days | US$1,800 | |
| 11 to 15 Jan 2027 | Dubai | 5 Days | US$1,800 | |
| 22 to 26 Feb 2027 | Pretoria | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 10 to 14 May 2027 | Durban | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 5 to 9 Jul 2027 | Cape Town | 5 Days | R18,000 |
Fees are per delegate and exclude VAT. Public intakes are confirmed once minimum numbers are met. We also deliver this course on your own schedule, in-house or live online.
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- R18,000 per delegate
- Duration
- 5 Days
- Field
- Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management
- Formats
- In-house, public, online
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