Valuable Course for:  Experienced Maintenance and Engineering personnel required to develop and implement best practice maintenance planning to ensure the right maintenance is preformed on the correct equipment at the most effective and cost effective agenda.

This Advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• Best practice, world class maintenance planning processes;
• Evaluating and justifying your maintenance programs using Value = Benefit - Cost strategy;
• Applying equipment life cycle planning, risk management and costing in daily planning;
• The "Plan, Do, Review" cycle of continuous improvement for Maintenance Planners;
• Where and how to apply maintenance performance management;
• Cost-justify different maintenance planning programs such as Run-to-Fail, On-Condition, and Predictive Maintenance;
• The basics of failure analysis;
• How to target and improve equipment performance;
• Understanding and Appling practical asset performance management.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Maintenance and Engineering personnel required to provide accurate Maintenance Estimating and Maintenance Scheduling in order to ensure that scheduled down time remains on track.

This Advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• How to achieve maximum payback from your maintenance program thorough applying the elements and processes of estimating and scheduling;
• The cause and effects of schedule overruns, and how to effectively get the job back on schedule;
• Scheduling and estimating techniques and tools used to effectively control a maintenance project;
• How to control the accuracy and quality of your estimates;
• Critical Path schedule and man-hour (budget) correction methods;
• How to build maintenance projects using flowcharting techniques;
• Considering the long term versus the short-term costs of implementing an O&M job or task assuming many conditions;
• Using the philosophy of estimating the net value of a company when choosing the resources to complete a job;
• How to improve job workflow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall scheduling % efficiency;
• Explaining critical path, define project critical milestones, predecessors and successor relationships;
• Identifying project risk points and explaining how planning to manage or control the identified risk is part of the overall project;
• Managing the importance of information linkages of the project.
• Appling scheduling and control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training relating to the theory and concepts for applying a risk-based approach to job plan building as well as to provide a procedure and guidelines for building risk based job plans.

This advanced Carver workshop will provide students with the top-quartile, interactive hands-on training with practical and industry specific case studies in such areas as:
• Explaining the advantages to using job plans from a cost, time & quality perspective;
• The basic concepts of a risk-based approach to job plan building;
• Defining the job plan building process;
• Defining job risk;
• Determining the appropriate level of job plan content based on criticality;
• The components and layout of an instruction set;
• Defining naming conventions to be consistent throughout processes.