Maintenance ManagementImproving 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
- 01Establishing a credible baseline
- 02Loss analysis and overall equipment effectiveness
- 03Constraint identification and management
- 04Changeover reduction
- 05Unplanned downtime and its causes
- 06Labour productivity analysis
- 07Quantifying opportunities and ranking them
- 08Building and justifying the plan
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 to 22 September 2026 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 22 to 26 October 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 29 October to 2 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 15 to 19 November 2026 | Port Louis, Mauritius | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 2 to 6 December 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 10 to 14 December 2026 | Victoria, Seychelles | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |