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Maintenance Management

Improving Operational Performance and Productivity

This course covers finding and closing the gap between what an operation currently produces and what it is capable of producing. Delegates work through performance measurement and the establishment of a credible baseline, loss analysis and overall equipment effectiveness, constraint identification, changeover and downtime reduction, and labour productivity. The emphasis throughout is on quantifying an opportunity before acting on it, because the largest apparent loss is frequently not the one worth addressing first. Delegates work with real production data and finish with a prioritised improvement plan and the calculations to justify it.

Course objectives

  • Establish a credible performance baseline
  • Conduct loss analysis and calculate overall equipment effectiveness
  • Identify the constraint governing output
  • Reduce changeover time and unplanned downtime
  • Analyse labour productivity without treating people as the only variable
  • Quantify an opportunity before committing effort to it
  • Build and justify a prioritised improvement plan

Who should attend

  • Production and operations managers
  • Manufacturing and process engineers
  • Maintenance and reliability engineers
  • Continuous improvement staff
  • Supervisors and shift managers

Course outline

  1. 01Establishing a credible baseline
  2. 02Loss analysis and overall equipment effectiveness
  3. 03Constraint identification and management
  4. 04Changeover reduction
  5. 05Unplanned downtime and its causes
  6. 06Labour productivity analysis
  7. 07Quantifying opportunities and ranking them
  8. 08Building and justifying the plan

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Improving Operational Performance and Productivity
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
28 December 2026 to 1 January 2027Casablanca, MoroccoClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegateRegister Now
25 to 29 January 2027Nairobi, KenyaClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegateRegister Now
1 to 5 February 2027Accra, GhanaClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegateRegister Now
8 to 12 February 2027Cape Town, South AfricaClassroomR19,950 per delegateRegister Now
15 to 19 February 2027OnlineOnlineR8,500 per delegateRegister Now

Improving Operational Performance and Productivity

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