Factory Maintenance Management, Planning, and Scheduling Certification Training Course
Are you ready to take your factory maintenance management skills to the next level? Look no further than our three-day Factory Maintenance Management, Planning, and Scheduling Certification Training Course! You will learn the tools and strategies to confidently manage all factory maintenance, planning, and scheduling activities.
Our expert instructors, with extensive experience in maintenance management, will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to succeed in this vital role. Don’t wait; sign up now and become a certified maintenance management pro! With this certification, you will be well-equipped to handle any challenge that comes your way with confidence and ease.
Questions, please call 24/7 888-632-2093.
- Learn industry-recommended factory maintenance management, planning procedures, and best practices.
- Receive training from a maintenance management professional with 30+ years of experience.
- Four ways to learn: public class, webinar, self-study, or on-site training.
- Public classes and webinars are limited to four students for maximum learning.
- Certificate issued on completion.
- Cost: Three-day class $2,295.00.
- ABT discounts and grants.
- Fund your training with a State Training Grant.
What Will I Learn in Factory Maintenance Management, Planning, and Scheduling Certification Training?
Module 1 — How to Improve Maintenance
Learn the continuous improvement process and identify who is responsible for driving maintenance improvements across your facility.
Module 2 — World-Class Maintenance Management
Discover the 20 attributes of top-performing maintenance organizations and the six focus areas that define world-class performance.
Module 3 — Maintenance Processes
Evaluate your maintenance department using a benchmarking questionnaire that compares your processes and systems to leading factories.
Module 4 — Maintenance Quality Improvement
Apply W. E. Cummings’s 14 quality principles to maintenance, identify obstacles that limit success, and learn how maintenance supports total quality.
Module 5 — Maintenance Information Flow
Understand how work requests, work orders, and job completion data should flow through your department and why accurate information is essential.
Module 6 — Planning and Scheduling
Learn the three types of maintenance work, how to staff each type, and how effective planning can save 3–5 hours of labor for every hour invested.
Module 7 — Maintenance Work Orders
See why the work order is the foundation of every maintenance strategy and how to use it to improve decisions, documentation, and accountability.
Module 8 — Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
Learn what to look for in a CMMS, how to implement it correctly, and how computerization supports modern maintenance operations.
Module 9 — Maintenance Technical Library
Use online resources effectively, conduct a maintenance survey, and learn the reference materials and tools every maintenance team should have.
Module 10 — RCM and PMO
Explore Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO), and learn how these methods improve reliability and reduce cost.
Module 11 — Preventive Maintenance (PM)
Learn why PM works, how to build PM task lists, set frequencies, conduct inspections, and use Planned Component Replacement (PCR).
Module 12 — Understanding PM
Define what the PM should achieve, identify critical awareness points, and select the optimal PM strategy for each equipment lifecycle.
Module 13 — Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Learn how to set up TPM, reduce the six major production losses, build autonomous maintenance groups, and improve existing PM programs.
Module 14 — Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
Explore predictive maintenance technologies, understand when to use each method, and learn practical steps for starting PdM in your plant.
Module 15 — Maintenance Interfaces with Other Departments
Understand how maintenance interacts with production, purchasing, stores, accounting, and logistics—and how to strengthen cross-department collaboration.
Module 16 — Zero-Based Maintenance Budgeting
Learn how to establish and manage a zero-based maintenance budget and track the use of maintenance resources across the facility.
Module 17 — Shutdowns, Outages, and Project Management
Master the essentials of shutdown and outage planning, including critical path method (CPM), Gantt charting, and project management for large maintenance events.
Factory Maintenance Management, Planning, and Scheduling Certification Public Class and Webinar Schedule
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., October 14-15, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., November 4-6, 2026 Full
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., December 9-11, 2026
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., January 6-7, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., February 3-4, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., March 3-4, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., April 7-8, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., May 5-7, 2027
- Wed., Thurs., and Fri., June 2-4, 2027
Scheduled dates don’t work for you? Schedule your own start date (subject to availability). Contact customer service to check date availability at info@academyofbusiness
training.com.
I found the instructor very knowledgeable. He found ways to personalize the material.
A. K., Maintenance Administrator
Zotefoam, Inc.
Factory Maintenance Management, Planning, and Scheduling FAQ
General Maintenance Management
What is factory maintenance management?
Factory maintenance management involves ensuring that equipment and production assets operate safely and reliably. ABT training teaches your team how to build a structured, efficient maintenance program, improve communication with production, and apply proven best practices used in world-class factories.
Why do manufacturing plants need a structured maintenance program?
Unplanned downtime is extremely costly. ABT training teaches practical techniques to reduce breakdowns, extend equipment life, and improve OEE, thereby helping plants reduce costs and increase throughput.
What is the difference between maintenance management and maintenance planning?
Management focuses on strategy. Planning focuses on preparing work. ABT training helps teams clearly understand their roles, eliminating overlap so that planners plan, schedulers schedule, and technicians perform work efficiently.
What are the main goals of a maintenance department?
Increase uptime, improve safety, reduce cost, support production, and prevent breakdowns. ABT training provides a step-by-step framework for achieving these goals, grounded in real-world maintenance leadership experience.
Which KPIs should factories track to assess maintenance performance?
MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, backlog, OEE, and cost KPIs. ABT training shows how to calculate, interpret, and apply these KPIs to drive measurable improvement.
Maintenance Planning
What does a maintenance planner do?
A planner prepares work: job plans, material lists, safety steps, estimates, and task instructions. ABT training teaches planners how to build accurate, repeatable job plans so technicians arrive prepared and downtime is minimized.
Why is planning so important?
Good planning reduces wrench time, delays, and labor costs. ABT training provides planners and supervisors with proven templates, checklists, and workflows that significantly improve maintenance preparation.
What is a maintenance backlog?
The backlog comprises approved work awaiting execution. ABT training teaches how to size, organize, and prioritize the backlog, ensuring your team always has the right jobs ready for scheduling.
How are work orders prioritized?
Based on criticality, production impact, and risk. ABT training introduces the Maintenance Ranking Index, thereby ensuring prioritization is consistent, objective, and aligned with production.
What should be included in a job plan?
Scope, tools, materials, safety steps, BOMs, and estimated labor. ABT training provides easy-to-use job plan templates and real examples, helping teams produce high-quality plans every time.
Maintenance Scheduling
What is the role of a maintenance scheduler?
Schedulers build the weekly schedule based on labor, parts, and production windows. ABT training clarifies the scheduler’s responsibilities and provides scheduling tools, thereby facilitating smoother, more productive coordination with production.
How much maintenance work should be scheduled in advance?
Industry best practice is to schedule 80–90%. ABT training teaches how to shift reactive plants toward proactive scheduling, increasing efficiency and reducing emergency work.
How do maintenance and production coordinate downtime?
Through structured weekly meetings and shared priorities. ABT training provides agendas, communication scripts, and meeting formats that eliminate conflict and ensure cooperation.
How do you measure schedule compliance?
By measuring how much scheduled work is completed as planned. ABT training shows how to track compliance, analyze failures, and improve weekly execution.
What causes maintenance schedules to fail?
Breakdowns, missing parts, poor planning, and unrealistic expectations. ABT training teaches how to prevent these problems at their source by creating schedules that are achievable and reliable.
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (PM & PdM)
What is preventive maintenance?
PM includes inspections and tasks performed at set intervals to prevent failures. ABT training teaches how to build and optimize PM tasks, eliminating unnecessary work and strengthening the tasks that truly improve reliability.
What is predictive maintenance?
Predictive maintenance uses vibration, thermography, oil analysis, and sensors to detect issues early. ABT training explains how to start a PdM program, select tools, and interpret data effectively.
How do predictive tools improve reliability?
They detect early warning signs, enabling repairs before failure. ABT training helps teams use PdM data confidently, reducing false alarms and improving maintenance decisions.
How do you know if your PM program is effective?
Improved uptime, fewer emergencies, and consistent PM compliance. ABT training teaches project management, auditing, and optimization, ensuring your project tasks deliver real value.
What equipment should be placed in a predictive program?
Critical and high-cost assets with high downtime impact. ABT training demonstrates how to perform equipment-criticality analysis, enabling PdM resources to be applied where they yield the highest ROI.
MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom Management
How much spare parts inventory should a factory keep?
Enough to support reliability while minimizing excess cost. ABT training teaches ABC analysis, EOQ, min/max, and criticality methods, helping plants optimize inventory levels.
What makes a part critical?
Any part that can shut down production if unavailable. ABT training teaches how to identify, classify, and maintain critical spare parts, reducing risk and costly downtime.
How should a maintenance storeroom be organized?
With clear labeling, barcoding/RFID, accurate counts, and standardized storage. ABT training provides storeroom layout strategies and MRO best practices that improve response times and inventory accuracy.
Why do many storerooms have obsolete inventory?
Poor CMMS data, equipment modifications, and a lack of control. ABT training teaches how to clean up obsolete inventory, standardize purchasing, and prevent future overstock.
How can a CMMS improve MRO management?
By tracking usage, linking parts to BOMs, and automating reorders. ABT training teaches teams how to properly configure, clean, and maintain CMMS data, making it a reliable tool instead of a data dump.
Safety, Compliance, and Reliability Best Practices
How does maintenance impact plant safety?
Reliable equipment reduces the need for emergency repairs and associated risks. ABT training emphasizes OSHA-aligned procedures, safe job planning, and documentation, helping maintenance teams improve workplace safety.
What is LOTO, and why is it critical?
Lockout/Tagout is required to prevent accidental machine startup. ABT training reinforces proper LOTO practices using real industrial examples, helping prevent serious injury.
What is a Maintenance Ranking Index?
A structured way to prioritize work based on urgency and impact. ABT training provides a practical ranking system that improves decision-making and helps teams focus on the highest-value work.
What are the best practices for improving reliability?
PM/PdM, strong planning, standardized tasks, and good CMMS data. ABT training teaches how to build repeatable, reliable processes, reduce chronic failures, and sustain long-term improvements.
Why do many factories struggle with planning and scheduling?
Excessive emergency work, unclear roles, poor communication, and weak CMMS data. ABT training provides structure, templates, workflows, and step-by-step methods that quickly and sustainably transform reactive maintenance into a proactive system.
Ready to Move from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance?
If your plant struggles with emergency work, missed schedules, and chronic downtime, ABT’s Factory Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Certification Training gives your team a practical, step-by-step system for planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance work with discipline.
What you’ll be able to implement immediately
- A weekly scheduling cadence that aligns maintenance and production
- Planner-ready job plans that reduce delays and increase wrench time
- KPI tracking for MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, backlog, and schedule compliance
- Storeroom and CMMS practices that prevent “missing parts” failures
Training options
- Public in-person training (Cincinnati area)
- Live webinar / virtual delivery
- On-site corporate training for your maintenance and reliability team
- Self-study
Next step
- Enroll or request dates for your team
- Contact us for a consultation via email at info@academyofbusiness.com or call us at 888-632-2093.