Suggested Attendees: experienced maintenance and engineering personnel looking to increase quality and decrease costs by learning to manage resources in a more effective manner. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will help you understand and apply important estimating and scheduling concepts through interactive discussions and practical, hands-on training.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply the elements and processes of estimating
• Consider long-term versus short-term costs of implementing an O&M job or task while assuming
the presence of numerous conditions
• Use the philosophy of estimating net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete
a job (what is the life cycle cost-benefit to the entire plant/mill?)
• Improve job work flow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall
scheduling % efficiency
• Explain critical path and use a Gantt chart to trace out the critical path, i.e. define critical project
milestones, predecessor and successor relationships
• Identify the project risk points and explain how planning to manage or control the identified risk is
part of the overall project
• Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the project
• Apply scheduling and control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality
• Schedule, estimate and control a maintenance project by practicing with a case study

As we go through the workshop, think of how you could apply this material to your job and plant. The last page of your student workbook asks you to formally respond to this question. At the end of the workshop, you will be asked to summarize and discuss your response with the class.