Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training

(3-Day Best Practices Course)

Reduce reactive maintenance, improve backlog management, and drive more reliable work execution with proven planning and scheduling methods.

  • Duration: 3 Days
  • Delivery: Public or Private (On-Site)
  • Audience: Planners, Schedulers, Supervisors, Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Managers

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Hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and implementation-ready tools.

What You’ll Improve in Maintenance Operations

  • Reduce time required to plan work
  • Improve schedule adherence and resource utilization
  • Strengthen work order quality and job plan development
  • Standardize planning/scheduling roles across the PSWT
  • Improve equipment availability through better execution discipline

Course Overview: Build a Reliable Work Execution System

Maintenance organizations that struggle with reactive maintenance, poor scheduling discipline, and inconsistent job planning often experience the same outcomes: wasted labor hours, growing backlogs, delayed production, and avoidable equipment failures.

Allied Reliability’s Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training is designed to help maintenance and operations professionals implement proven, world-class best practices to manage work more effectively—from identification through execution and continuous improvement.

This hands-on, instructor-led course provides the tools, processes, and role clarity needed to strengthen your maintenance operations and drive measurable improvement in equipment availability, workforce efficiency, and plant performance.

Who Should Attend?

Ideal for professionals responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities.

  • Maintenance Planners and Backup Planners
  • Maintenance Schedulers
  • Maintenance Supervisors and Coordinators
  • Operations / Production Coordinators
  • Reliability Engineers
  • Maintenance Managers
  • Others seeking a comprehensive understanding of best practices

Good fit whether you’re building the function or standardizing toward world-class execution.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to…

  • Improve work management efficiency across the entire work cycle
  • Schedule and coordinate maintenance activities with greater accuracy
  • Reduce the time required for job plan development and planning preparation
  • Strengthen backlog management and work prioritization
  • Apply reliability principles that support continuous improvement
  • Align maintenance operations with broader asset performance goals

This training is built for real-world execution—not theory—so you can return to your plant ready to implement what you’ve learned.

Course Content Highlights

  • Explain the work management cycle and techniques used in each phase
  • Define PSWT roles and responsibilities
  • Minimum elements of an effective job plan; develop job maps
  • Efficiently identify, prioritize, and plan work orders
  • Maintenance waste and how planning reduces it
  • Calculate backlog size; adjust organization based on results
  • Schedule daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks
  • Reliability & Maintenance Processes + WEM integration
  • FRACAS + root cause analysis support for failure elimination

Upcoming Public Course Dates

May 5-7, 2026

Houston, TX

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May 12-14, 2026

Charleston, SC

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Nov 3-5, 2026

Charleston, SC

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"Trainers are knowledgeable about the course they were presenting. Training facilities provided a great learning environment. I especially liked that I will be able to go back & implement what I learned right away."
- Maintenance Planner, Golden Valley Electric Association

Take the Next Step Toward World-Class Maintenance Execution

Effective planning and scheduling is the foundation of high-performing maintenance operations. If your organization is ready to reduce reactive maintenance, improve workforce productivity, and execute maintenance work with discipline and consistency, this course will provide the roadmap.

Register today or request training for your team.

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