An unplanned shutdown doesn't start on the day equipment fails — it starts months earlier, in a maintenance plan that was never built properly, a schedule nobody prioritised, or a shutdown that was scoped in a rush. By the time the failure happens, the real problem is already history.

The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built this Strategic Maintenance Planning and Shutdown Management for Facilities Training Course around that timeline — giving maintenance planners and facility engineers the tools to build maintenance strategies, prioritise assets, and run shutdowns that stay on budget and on schedule, under the Management category's Training Courses In Facilities Management.

• Apply strategic principles of maintenance planning across preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance.
• Build maintenance schedules and work order prioritisation that actually get followed.
• Plan and manage facility shutdowns from scope definition through start-up.
• Plan resources — labour, materials, tools and contractors — before a shutdown or major maintenance activity begins.
• Assess maintenance risk and apply safety and compliance requirements, including permits and lockout/tagout.
• Control maintenance costs, track downtime and set KPIs that show where the plan is working.
• Use CMMS and digital tools to improve planning decisions and integrate maintenance into the wider facilities strategy.

Target Audience

• Facilities Managers and Maintenance Managers/Supervisors.
• Maintenance Planners and Coordinators.
• Facility and Engineering/Technical Managers.
• Project and Shutdown Managers, and Property/Facilities Operations Professionals.

Module 1: Why Strategic Maintenance Planning Matters

• Principles of strategic maintenance, and maintenance objectives and policies.
• Asset reliability and availability.
• Preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance, and developing maintenance strategies.

Module 2: Scheduling and Managing the Work

• Maintenance scheduling principles and work order planning and prioritisation.
• Preventive maintenance schedules.
• Corrective maintenance planning and backlog management.

Module 3: Planning and Running a Shutdown

• Shutdown planning fundamentals and defining shutdown scope and objectives.
• Shutdown work packages and critical path activities.
• Shutdown risk identification and mitigation, and start-up and post-shutdown activities.

Module 4: Resourcing Maintenance and Shutdown Work

• Labour and skills planning, and materials and spare parts planning.
• Tools and equipment requirements.
• Contractor and supplier coordination, and resource allocation and utilisation.

Module 5: Risk, Safety and Compliance in Maintenance

• Maintenance risk assessment and permit-to-work systems.
• Lockout/tagout principles.
• Safety planning during shutdowns and regulatory and compliance considerations.

Module 6: Controlling Cost and Measuring Performance — With Digital Tools

• Maintenance KPIs and performance indicators, and maintenance cost analysis.
• Budget planning and cost control, and measuring downtime and productivity.
• Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), digital scheduling, predictive maintenance technologies and using data to improve planning decisions.

Module 7: Building an Integrated, Long-Term Maintenance Strategy

• Integrating maintenance with facilities operations and long-term maintenance planning.
• Lifecycle asset management.
• Improving facility reliability and service continuity, and developing an integrated maintenance improvement plan.