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Plan and control project schedules
A useful schedule supports decisions before delays take hold. Structure activities, make dependencies visible and monitor deviations to adjust commitments. Strengthen your ability to coordinate stakeholders and explain how trade-offs affect deadlines.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- GP001FR Code
Presentation
In a demanding industrial environment, every hour of downtime can cost thousands of euros. This intensive 3-day course transforms maintenance operations, replacing reactive management with structured project management that reduces downtime and controls costs.
The programme covers work breakdown structures (WBS), the critical path and sequencing under real constraints, including unavailable parts, resource limitations and unexpected events. With MS Project, you will learn to build a robust schedule, incorporate realistic allowances and simulate scenarios to secure planning without disrupting production.
By the end of the course, you will master the creation of monitoring dashboards and clear reporting procedures. The result: technical shutdowns stay within their time budget, teams are closely coordinated and management has reliable indicators for decision-making.
Objectives
By the end of this maintenance planning course, you will be able to:
- apply planning fundamentals to improve maintenance department performance;
- structure a project breakdown by identifying critical tasks and milestones;
- build a realistic workload plan incorporating resources, constraints and unexpected events;
- use key features of a tool such as MS Project to build and adjust a schedule;
- deploy a schedule control system to support monitoring and team responsiveness.
Program
Module 1: Understanding planning logic and priorities
- Analysing planning's strategic role in industrial maintenance.
- Distinguishing project types: preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, capital works and technical shutdowns.
- Key project lifecycle stages, from defining the need to closure.
- Identifying and organising tasks through a work breakdown structure (WBS).
- Defining intervention priorities to align maintenance with production requirements.
Module 2: Developing a realistic, controlled work plan
- Accurately estimating durations and defining task dependencies.
- Building a logical sequence and identifying the critical path.
- Incorporating equipment, people and supplies, including parts and suppliers.
- Balancing planned workload with operational contingencies.
- Using tools such as MS Project and Excel to visualise schedules: demonstration without hands-on practice.
- Best practices for reliable intervention scheduling.
Module 3: Monitoring progress and securing deadlines
- Implementing simple control methods to track actual work progress.
- Creating dashboards and monitoring performance indicators, including milestone compliance and variances.
- Managing unexpected events and dynamic rescheduling techniques.
- Coordinating communication between maintenance and production departments.
- Using lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
Case studies
- Analyse and plan a complete technical shutdown or major intervention.
Audience
This course is intended for technical professionals seeking to structure interventions, including:
- maintenance managers controlling budgets and schedules to ensure production equipment availability;
- maintenance preparers and planners organising resources and work instructions to optimise technicians' time;
- capital projects managers coordinating improvement works to meet commissioning dates;
- maintenance team leaders supervising field progress and responding quickly to unforeseen events.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
- Professional experience: experience in a maintenance or technical department is strongly recommended to understand the operational constraints covered.
- Basic knowledge:
- understanding of how a maintenance department operates;
- basic knowledge of intervention management;
- familiarity with Windows and Microsoft 365.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Case study
Course highlights
- Industrial specialisation: an approach 100% tailored to real factory maintenance constraints, including resources, parts, deadlines and technical shutdowns, to secure facility performance.
- Structured methodology: structure projects using WBS, milestone identification and task prioritisation to move from firefighting to controlled management.
- Pragmatic and operational: work on practical shutdown or major intervention planning cases to apply sequencing and workload-balancing methods.
- Introduction to tools: explore essential MS Project features to build and adjust a realistic schedule, visualise the critical path and anticipate time overruns.
Dates and sessions
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