Maintenance Audit and Site Inspection

What are the Goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the added value of asset & maintenance management to the business process
• Explain how maintenance audits are related to the asset management framework and why they are beneficial
• Understand the basic principles of maintenance audits & site inspections
• Apply assessment techniques to identify performance gaps and improvement potential
• Benchmark their maintenance organization against international world class standards
• Set up a concrete implementation plan based on assessment results

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals involved in the area of maintenance contracts, but will greatly benefit:

• Operations & Maintenance professionals
• Asset owners & Asset Managers
• Maintenance engineers & business improvement leaders
• All professionals involved in asset & maintenance management auditing
• Quality & compliance managers
• Lead auditors & audit team members
• Anyone who wishes to update themselves on asset & maintenance assessments

Daily Agenda

Day One: Asset & Maintenance Management Basics

• Asset & Maintenance Management as a business process
• Asset management landscape model – The Asset Management System
• Strategy framework
• Line of sight
• Asset management policy, asset strategy, asset management strategy
• Asset management objectives (goal setting)
• (Strategic) Asset management plan
• Measuring performance, feedback & improvement
• International standards on asset & maintenance management: PAS 55 & ISO 55000
• Where the maintenance audit fits in

Day Two: Best Practices in Asset & Maintenance Management

• Risk management & risk based maintenance concepts
• RAMS – Systems Engineering
• Whole Life Costing principles
• Workflow management
• Organization, people & improvement
• Performance monitoring – (Key) Performance indicators

Day Three: Maintenance Auditing Principles & Techniques

• Auditing principles – from preparation to reporting
• Process audit
• Site inspection
• Asset & Maintenance assessment – gap analysis
• Certification audit for ISO 55000
• Benchmarking

Day Four: Interpreting Audit Results & Implementing the Improvement

• The performance gap – defining the goals
• Finding improvement potential & actions
• Defining work packages & improvement plan
• Develop the business case – multi criteria analysis
• Implementation aspects and periodic auditing
• How to make it work? - change management

Day Five: Interactive Workshop - Now we do it Ourselves!

• Analysis of the business – business goals
• Preparing the audit
• Execute the gap analysis
• Define actions, work packages & improvement plan
• The business case – is it worth the money
• Present your results to management
• Evaluate the audit: WWW & WWW