Secrets of Building a Maintenance Program

Name: Secrets of Building a Maintenance Program
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The knowledge that any maintenance manager or supervisor should have Including Mastering AI for Maintenance

Role Play

Created byA Rezika

Last updated 3/2026

English

What you'll learn

Use AI to elevate maintenance practices
World class maintenance perception and definition
Steps to build a Maintenance Program
Secrets overlooked in the Maintenance Management
Importance of Maintenance for the stability and continuity of work place
Components of a successful Maintenance Program
Discovering the weaknesses and strengths in any existing Maintenace Program
Setting up maintenance KPI's
A quick complete reference to RCM, Reliability-Centered Maintenance
A Guide to build the Maintenance Strategy
Fundamental statistical tools for Maintenance

Course content

7 sections • 37 lectures • 8h 39m total length

Introduction7:21

Transcend Maintenance Perception7:57
In this part we shall clarify the correct and the wrong perception of maintenance and why we might have wrong perceptions in our minds
What about your work place?
A step Further and practical examples8:22
Take you understanding for maintenance a step forward and see practical examples that will help you spot the good and bad maintenance practices around you.
What are the good and bad examples of maintenance in you work and life?
How companies makes profit?6:11
We shall examine how profit is generated and how can you support your work place to make more profit?
Maintenance Direct and indirect cost8:36
An explanation of the direct and indirect costs of Maintenance with examples
A broader financial view. How the finance team sees the assets?8:02
Take the chance of looking to the assets from the financial point of view. This will opens a new view point for you to see how the company sees its assets on the long term . It will help you also to calculate the effect of maintenance on assets on the long term.
What is the effect of absence of maintenance on operations, safety, environment?16:08
In this lecture it will be clarified with examples, videos and actual process flow the effect of absence of maintenance on operations, safety and environment. The trainer will be able to link the examples in this lecture to his work place.
Build a Case for Upgrading the Maintenance Program

Maintenance process elements and how to trigger it.17:13
The maintenance cycle from the starting signal to closing
The sources from which maintenance requests arise
The importance of every part of the maintenance cycle
Steps that can be combined
How to list all the assets that need maintenance?14:44
The value of the company reflects the value of its assets
The maintenance target is to maintain the assets in a healthy productive status
But, at first we need to know all the assets and some important data about them
What are the important data about the assets and how to collect it?12:22
The maintenance team role in generating or refreshing the equipment list
Important notes about equipment codes
Summary of the data needed to generate the maintenance program.
Most types of Maintenance Activities are here12:17
Detailed description of All Maintenance Activities/Tasks Types and their hierarchy
How to collect Maintenance Activities for a new Program?15:39
Where to find the needed Maintenance Activities?
Practical Examples for selecting Maintenance Activities
Data required for each Maintenance Activity
How to update/upgrade an existing Maintenance Program?12:11
Steps to update/upgrade a running maintenance program.
How do I figure out all the skills needed in the maintenance team?12:02
Practical examples of how to convert the maintenance activities to team skills
Linking the skills to a model job description10:45
List of almost all the skills needed in the maintenance team
Some suggestions for the selection based on actual job description
Final Remarks about the process and skills6:03
Final Remarks that need to be considered when establishing the maintenance team
A link to a bank for all job descriptions needed
Review of the existing maintenance process, and findings with a clear, prioritized recommendations

What does a Maintenance Program mean?13:31
Why do we need a maintenance program?
What is the perception of the word program in our minds?
What is the definition of a maintenance program?
Generate the one Document that will gather everything together.12:30
We shall build together part by part this document.
All the Documents we basically need and a demo of the feedback cycle.10:40
A summary of all the basic documents the program shall basically need.
The importance of feedback.
A demonstration of the feedback role.
Practical Key Performance Indicators of your own34:49
The Importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
Some of the useful KPI's and How to calculate each one.
How to create your own KPI's
Performance vs planning KPI's
The concept of leading KPI's
Plan for Emergency situations16:36
After all we had learnt together about the preparation and the components of a maintenance program, let us use this knowledge to be prepared for emergencies. Why? As we said in the start of this journey, don't let emergency failures win by taking you by surprise.
Demo Presentation: Program Concepts & KPIs - Gain Buy In

Intelligent Maintenance Tools before AI11:08
How ML-Machine Learning works to support AI?7:15
Practical Example with code for ML in Maintenance21:44
How to use GenAI models?7:03
Practical example on using GenAI freely in Maintenance8:48
Practical example on customizing free GenAI for your own specific scenario8:54
Use your AI assistant to expand a raw shift report to detailed one with insights6:35
Use your AI assistant to analyze monthly failures a& give recommendations11:51
Using GenAI Safely7:03
Prove It: Defending AI in Maintenance to a Skeptical Colleague

Fundamental data visualization tools to clarify where to focus your efforts11:05
RCM Reliability-Centered Maintenance foundations19:16
The target from this newly added lecture is to make Reliability & RCM easy to understand and use.
You will see the need of reliability as a process for maintenance tasks selection and more.
You will know what you need to prepare in your maintenance program to be ready for the RCM process.
All the RCM jargon is explained in an easy to digest manner
It works as an RCM crash course and as a reference to return to it for a quick RCM process refresh.
Build Your Maintenance Strategy25:25
- How to Analyze your work place mission and vision?
- Link Maintenance strategy to the organization mission and vision
- Examples of Maintenance strategy
- What are the elements to be considered in the maintenance strategy? Why?
- How to detail the strategy statements? Example Toyota Global Vision - Vision & Philosophy
How to select a successful starting point?21:28
A helpful checklist that will let you find the weak points in an existing maintenance program or system. When you are starting a maintenance program from scratch, it will help you mark your progress and figure out where extra effort is needed.

Examples of Check Lists to start using your gained knowledge8:08
What checklists can be helpful?
How to create them?
Examples on stock taking, and multi options checklists
Build an auto triggering sheet for your activities. It links everything together1:05:45
Step by step will build the file
How do we transfer maintenance Activities from Documents to the file?
Recording the time cycle and the type of maintenance required
Create a Daily checklist
Add Activity wise steps, spares, safety, tools and create auto links
Recording of operating hours and automatically calculations are done on the last reading
Automatic calculation of remaining time for operation to maintenance
Automatic calculation of the number of operating hours remaining to maintenance
Data Integrity For Maintenance14:26

Requirements

Basic understanding of industrial business setup is recommended to comprehend the examples
All other information needed to build the maintenance program is given in the lectures step-by-step.

Description

This training program explains the secrets of professional maintenance program with practical models & Tools as AI, Data Analysis and RCM

Practice with Role Plays before facing it in real life

Individuals aiming to improve their skills for career advancement or job change will find the tools and knowledge they need in this course

Whether you aim to raise the level of your maintenance management or start creating a maintenance program, you will find clear and tidy steps to reach your goal easily and professionally. The valuable material in this training includes how to Use AI to elevate maintenance practices, maintenance strategy and, crash course on RCM.

The AI section will allow you to Use AI to elevate maintenance practices through understanding Intelligent Maintenance Tools before AI, How ML-Machine Learning works to support AI?, Practical Example with code for ML in Maintenance, How to use GenAI models?, Practical example on using GenAI freely in Maintenance, Practical example on customizing free GenAI for specific your own scenario, Use your AI assistant to expand a raw shift report to detailed one with insights, Use your AI assistant to analyze monthly failures a& give recommendations and finally, Using GenAI Safely

This course fits for many purposes. You can find your needs in this course mainly when you are one of those categories:

If you want to apply for a supervisor or maintenance manager position or be promoted to one of these jobs, you will know the secrets around which maintenance operations revolve.
This program is designed to provide you with the necessary tools to spread the correct viewpoint on maintenance
There are exercises and models during the training to deepen understanding
You will find the slides used in most of the lectures attached for reference
You will be able to set a maintenance strategy that matches with your workplace strategy and you will gain an overview of the RCM process
You can contact us through the questions and answers for each lecture to clarify all your questions about the lecture.
Through this program, you will get out of the cycle of typical maintenance implementation to the circle of understanding and developing maintenance work
If you want to write or develop a maintenance strategy or understand reliability RCM then you are in the correct place
If you have a computer system to manage maintenance and do not get the desired benefit from it, you will easily know what is missing
If you are not working in the maintenance field but interested in understanding the maintenance process you are in the correct place.
To start marketing maintenance products, you will find a wealth of information to support you

After understanding the importance of maintenance for all company activities, you will have the confidence to present maintenance results at the highest administrative levels

At the end of the course, you will find a gift that takes you step-by-step to create a basic maintenance program for an equipment using Google Sheets

Who this course is for:

Anyone planning to get promoted to a supervisory position in maintenance
Anyone who wants to land a new job in maintenance
Those who are looking to join the maintenance management field
Those who want to Use AI to elevate maintenance practices
Those who are interested in understanding maintenance
Someone who is selling maintenance related products
Who wants to update or upgrade the maintenance process
Who wants to build a maintenance strategy

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 7min

Transcend Maintenance perception7 lectures • 55min

Successful Maintenance Process10 lectures • 1hr 53min

Setting up a successful Maintenance Program6 lectures • 1hr 28min

Use AI to elevate maintenance practices10 lectures • 1hr 30min

The Final Bolts and nuts to start he Practice Journey4 lectures • 1hr 17min

Bonus tools3 lectures • 1hr 28min

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