In an office building, a facilities fault means an inconvenience. In a manufacturing plant, the same fault — a compressed-air system down, a cooling failure, a power interruption — can stop the production line entirely, and every minute it stays down costs far more than the maintenance budget that could have prevented it. Industrial Facilities Management exists precisely because factories cannot treat their physical infrastructure as background noise.

The When the Production Line Stops: Industrial Facilities Management for Manufacturing Plants training course, delivered by Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, is built around that production-critical reality. Participants learn to manage plant maintenance, industrial engineering systems, and critical industrial assets in a way that keeps facilities working in lockstep with production, rather than treating them as a separate function that occasionally interrupts it.

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain why industrial facilities failures translate directly into production downtime and cost.
• Plan industrial plant operations, facility layout, and capacity in line with production objectives.
• Manage plant maintenance and industrial engineering systems — electrical, HVAC, compressed air, and utilities.
• Apply industrial asset management and lifecycle planning for critical equipment and infrastructure.
• Identify and control industrial health, safety, and risk factors, including machinery and hazardous materials.
• Manage industrial energy use, environmental performance, and business continuity and resilience.
• Manage industrial contractors and apply digital tools and KPIs to measure and improve performance.
• Develop a strategic, integrated industrial facilities management framework aligned with production.

Target Audience

• Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities Managers
• Plant Managers and Plant Maintenance Managers
• Maintenance Engineers and Industrial Engineering Professionals
• Asset Management Professionals
• Health and Safety Professionals
• Production and Operations Managers
• Building Services and Engineering Managers and Supervisors
• Professionals seeking specialised Facilities Management Training Courses

Module 1: Why Downtime on the Factory Floor Costs More Than It Looks

• Definition and scope of Industrial Facilities Management
• Relationship between facilities and industrial operations
• Responsibilities of industrial facilities managers
• Key challenges in integrating facilities services with production requirements

Module 2: Plant Operations and Facility Planning

• Manufacturing plant infrastructure and facility layout
• Production support areas, warehouses, and logistics facilities
• Utilities and service infrastructure planning
• Capacity planning aligned with production objectives

Module 3: Plant Maintenance and Industrial Engineering Systems

• Preventive, corrective, and predictive/condition-based maintenance
• Electrical power, HVAC, compressed air, and steam and utility systems
• Maintenance scheduling, prioritisation, and performance monitoring
• Integrating maintenance management with production operations

Module 4: Industrial Asset and Lifecycle Management

• Asset registers, classification, and critical asset identification
• Asset condition assessment, reliability, and performance
• Lifecycle cost analysis and asset replacement planning
• Capital expenditure and long-term industrial infrastructure planning

Module 5: Health, Safety and Industrial Risk Management

• Hazard identification and risk assessment
• Machinery, equipment, electrical, and mechanical safety
• Chemical and hazardous material considerations
• Contractor safety, incident reporting, and risk mitigation

Module 6: Energy, Environmental Management and Business Resilience

• Industrial energy management and utility consumption monitoring
• Water conservation, industrial waste management, and carbon reduction
• Critical infrastructure identification and emergency preparedness
• Business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience

Module 7: Contractors, Digital Tools and Performance Measurement

• Selecting and managing industrial contractors and service-level agreements
• Computerised maintenance systems, IoT-enabled monitoring, and predictive maintenance
• Industrial facilities management KPIs and asset reliability metrics
• Facility audits, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement

Module 8: Strategic Industrial Facilities Management

• Developing an industrial facilities management strategy
• Integrating hard and soft facilities services with production objectives
• Facilities budgeting, cost management, and stakeholder coordination
• Building an integrated, resilient industrial facilities management framework