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Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Control - Convertas , Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:22:00 +04

Day 1
Objectives of maintenance
· Definition of maintenance and asset management
· Challenges and objectives of maintenance
· The modern maintenance strategy
· Maintenance windows
· Maintenance methods
· Types of maintenance
· Classification of roles in maintenance
· Customer service in maintenance
The work order system
· Purpose of the Work Order (WO) system
· Information collected on a WO
· Job estimating methods
· Prioritizing maintenance work orders

Day 2
Preventive Maintenance
· What is preventive maintenance
· The importance of implementing a PM program
· Establishing schedules
· Breaking a facility into logical parts
· Developing an equipment list
· Developing equipment manuals
· Setting up inventory
· Understanding risks associated with a PM program

Day 3
Planning and scheduling of major maintenance WOS and shutdowns
· The unique challenge of maintenance shutdowns
· Importance of a clear Work Order (WO) scope definition
· Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
· Methods for building an effective maintenance database
· Critical Path Method (CPM)
· Work order crashing
· Resource scheduling and leveling

Day 4
Planning and controlling maintenance materials
· Identification of inventory costs
· Considerations in inventory decisions
· How much to order: Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
· When to order (setting min and max levels)
Controlling maintenance work
· Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
· Backlog indices
· Schedule compliance indices
· PM and emergency indices
· Generic maintenance indicators

Day 5
The role of planning and scheduling in Performance
Improvement
· Maintenance as a business process
· How scheduled maintenance can lock in waste and cost
· Drawing learning from recurring maintenance tasks
· Reviewing planned maintenance
· Dealing with the productivity challenge
· Refining maintenance policies
· Capturing learning from inspection work

Cost: 3995 USD

Duration: 5 Days

Procurement Planning and Bid Management - Convertas , Dubai,Malaysia,Turkey,United Kingdom

Mon, 29 May 2017 23:00:24 +04

Objective

Write strategic procurement objectives and initiatives to support long term directions
Arrange 'spend items' into categories that support planning of go-to-market strategies
Apply demand forecasting techniques to improve planning of procurement activities
Generate vendor integration strategies to ensure supply security
Evaluate vendor bids in a scientific manner to support selection decision making

Outline
Strategic procurement planning

Setting procurement mission and objectives
Selection of improvement initiatives

- Structure
- Systems
- Work streams
- Culture

Performance measures and targets
Communication of procurement plan
Stakeholder engagement

Spend category planning

Spend category profiling
Spend impact analysis

- Financial impact
- Vendor segmentation

Market risk analysis

- Value chain analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Porter's five forces
- Risk heat maps
- Vendor risk scores

Category report consolidation

Forecasting and demand planning

The soft side of forecasting

- Tetlock's foxes and hedgehogs
- Taleb's black swan

Principles of demand planning
Quantitative forecasting techniques
Qualitative forecasting techniques

Vendor integration

Vendor prequalification process
Vendor prequalification criteria

   - Legal criteria
   - Financial criteria
   - Technical criteria
   - Staff criteria
   - HSE criteria

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Strategic partnering
Supplier diversity programs

Bid evaluation and selection

Bid management process
Bid evaluation criteria
Scoring systems and protocols
Selection and award
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for complex purchases

Cost: 3995 USD

Duration: 5 Days

Project Risk Management - Convertas , Dubai,Malaysia,Turkey,United Kingdom

Mon, 29 May 2017 22:21:56 +04

Objective

Develop project risk management plans
Identify project scope risks
Predict project schedule risks
Examine project resource risks
Apply quantitative and qualitative risk assessments
Plan strategies for negative and positive risks
Devise metrics to monitor and control project risks

OutlinePlanning risk management

Risk components
Project risk planning processes
Risk management plan elements

Identifying scope risks

Sources of scope risk
Scope change risks
Defining deliverables
Bottom-up approach

Identifying schedule risks

Sources of schedule risk
Activity definition
Estimating activity duration
Applying estimating techniques
Activity sequencing

Identifying resource risks

Sources of resource risk
Resource planning methods
Staff acquisition
Cost estimating and cost budgeting
Managing project risks

Qualifying and quantifying project risks

Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis
Risk assessment matrices
Quantifying risks using PERT analysis
Decision tree analysis

Developing risk response strategies

Categories of risk
Risk management strategies
Risk response planning
Contingency planning
Risk registers

Monitoring and controlling project risks

Implementing response plans
Collecting project status
Metrics and trend analysis
Project reviews and risk reassessment

Cost: 3195 USD

Duration: 3 Days

Advanced Project Management and Control - Convertas , Dubai,Malaysia,Turkey,United Kingdom

Mon, 29 May 2017 20:52:51 +04

Objective

Skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique
Ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and in budget
An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date
Confidence to communicate project "trade-offs" clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and team members
Knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance
Ability to "frame" your questions when analyzing the project plan to spot hidden variances

Outline

Project and Portfolio Management

Portfolio, program, and project management overview
Planning and control using appropriate life cycle
Managing matrix resources
The role of the project manager and skills required
A framework for planning and control

Project Initiation and Planning

Planning and control starts with the project charter
Exercise: Rank project using constraints flexibility assessment
Roles and responsibility
Exercise: Develop a RASCI chart

Organizing and Conducting

Define the project scope
Design the work breakdown structure
Identify project activities

Estimating Activity Duration

Estimating techniques
Reserve management
Balance effort/duration and allocation

Constructing and Analyzing the Project Network

Scheduling techniques
Milestones and Gantt charts
Network diagrams

Constructing and Analyzing / Resource Leveling

Applying accelerating techniques
Resource scheduling and availability conflict management techniques
Exercise: Resolve an over allocation problem using the least risk option

Monitor and Control Progress

Measuring and reporting progress (project governance)
Establishing a project dashboard
Exercise: Design a dashboard report
Earned value for tracking and forecasting time/cost
Closing Exercise: How techniques learned can be applied upon return to the workplace

Cost: 3195 USD

Duration: 3 Days