Unplanned breakdowns rarely announce themselves in advance, and the overhead cost of fixing equipment only after it fails is one of the most avoidable expenses an industrial facility carries. Preventive maintenance — work performed on schedule, while equipment is still running, to catch problems before they become failures — sits between purely reactive repair and full predictive maintenance, and planning is what gives it the edge over both.

Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built this course to cover everything organizations need to run a preventive maintenance system properly: keeping engines, devices, and industrial installations operating for as long as possible, and cutting the energy and output losses that come from avoidable downtime. The approach applies across facility types and electrical equipment of every kind, including the breakdowns that stem from ordinary environmental wear.

Who Should Attend?

• Procurement officials and staff working across different institutions.
• Employees in negotiation and monitoring centers.
• Quality managers across various organizational activities.
• Company managers, department heads, and anyone with a managerial role touching maintenance.

Knowledge and Benefits:

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the resources and techniques needed to detect a malfunction before an actual breakdown occurs.
• Set an appropriate inspection frequency for preventive maintenance.
• Build and organize monthly preventive maintenance and repair programs.
• Apply the human, financial, and spare-parts requirements needed at each maintenance location, and use networking measures to resolve completion issues.

Module 1: Why Preventive Maintenance Pays Off

• The overhead costs avoided by planning versus unplanned reactive maintenance.
• Where preventive maintenance sits between reactive and predictive strategies.
• Extending equipment life, minimizing energy loss, and addressing breakdowns caused by environmental factors.

Module 2: Building the Maintenance Function

• The meaning of maintenance, its visible indicators, and management's role in achieving its objectives.
• The economic significance of maintenance and its demands in terms of utilization and expenses.
• Defining maintenance tasks, goals, and functions, and the different maintenance systems and their types.

Module 3: Planning and Scheduling Maintenance Work

• Setting the frequency of preventive maintenance inspections.
• Identifying and developing monthly preventive maintenance and repair programs.
• Using networking measures to resolve issues that arise in completing scheduled work.

Module 4: Resources, Tools, and Spare Parts

• Maintenance tools and how to prepare them.
• Managing spare parts storage alongside preventive and fault-repair maintenance.
• Human, financial, and spare-parts requirements by maintenance location, and budgeting for maintenance expenses.

Module 5: Technology and Continuous Improvement

• Using computers to support maintenance work.
• Improving the quality and efficiency of maintenance methods.
• Establishing means to ensure proficiency and consistency in execution.