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Maintenance Management

Strategic Maintenance Management Best Practices

Designed for maintenance leaders responsible for whole-plant performance, this course consolidates proven maintenance strategies including preventive, predictive, and reliability-centred approaches into a single operating framework. Delegates examine how leading African industrial operators structure maintenance organisations, control costs, and align maintenance targets with production and safety goals. The course balances strategic frameworks with practical tools for immediate application.

Course objectives

  • Evaluate the strengths and limitations of reactive, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centred maintenance strategies
  • Design a maintenance strategy selection framework matched to asset criticality
  • Structure a maintenance organisation for accountability, skills development, and cost control
  • Align maintenance KPIs with production, safety, and financial objectives
  • Build a maintenance improvement roadmap with realistic milestones

Who should attend

  • Maintenance managers and superintendents
  • Plant and operations managers
  • Reliability and engineering managers
  • Maintenance team leaders
  • Technical directors overseeing asset-heavy operations

Course outline

  1. 01The maintenance strategy landscape and criticality-based decision making
  2. 02Preventive maintenance programme design and optimisation
  3. 03Introduction to predictive and condition-based maintenance
  4. 04Reliability-centred maintenance principles and failure modes thinking
  5. 05Organisational design, staffing, and skills for modern maintenance teams
  6. 06KPI frameworks, cost control, and building the improvement roadmap

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Strategic Maintenance Management Best Practices
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
16 to 18 September 2026Victoria Falls, ZimbabweClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
20 to 22 January 2027Accra, GhanaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
20 to 22 May 2027Windhoek, NamibiaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
18 to 20 June 2027London, United KingdomClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now