Waiting for equipment to fail before fixing it is the most expensive way to run a maintenance program — it drives up repair costs, causes unplanned downtime, and shortens asset life. As facilities become more complex, moving beyond reactive repairs toward structured, planned maintenance has become essential to keeping operations reliable and costs under control.

The Facilities Maintenance in Practice training course, delivered by Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, equips facilities and maintenance professionals to apply preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and reliability-centred approaches, and to use CMMS platforms to organise, track, and optimise maintenance work — reducing failures and extending asset life across the operation.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the strategic importance of facilities maintenance and the cost of reactive repairs.
• Design and implement preventive maintenance schedules based on manufacturer and operational requirements.
• Apply predictive maintenance techniques using condition monitoring and diagnostic data.
• Apply reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) principles to select the right strategy per asset.
• Use CMMS systems to plan, track, and analyse maintenance activities.
• Build maintenance plans that balance cost, risk, and asset performance.

Target Group

• Facilities and maintenance managers.
• Maintenance planners, schedulers, and reliability/asset engineers.
• Building engineers and technical supervisors.
• Operations managers responsible for equipment uptime.

Module 1: Why Maintenance Strategy Matters

• The cost of reactive maintenance versus planned approaches.
• Overview of maintenance strategies: reactive, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centred.
• The strategic role of maintenance in facility performance.

Module 2: Preventive Maintenance Programs

• Building preventive maintenance schedules and checklists.
• Setting maintenance intervals based on manufacturer guidelines.
• Balancing preventive maintenance costs against failure risks.

Module 3: Predictive and Reliability-Centred Maintenance

• Condition monitoring techniques and diagnostic tools.
• Interpreting data to predict equipment failure before it occurs.
• Core principles of RCM and matching strategy to asset criticality.

Module 4: Planning, Scheduling and Resourcing Maintenance Work

• Structuring maintenance planning around operational priorities.
• Coordinating labor, spare parts, and equipment downtime.
• Balancing planned maintenance with emergency response capacity.

Module 5: Managing Maintenance Data with CMMS

• Core functions of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems.
• Tracking work orders, maintenance history, and asset performance.
• Using maintenance data to support continuous improvement and reliability.