GS05 - Plan-led Philosophy and Fundamentals

“The senior leadership training and development support provided by EngPro Solutions has provided our managers and junior leaders with new skills and techniques to manage organisational performance. They are more commercially aware, confident to address poor behaviours and are overall better leaders. Additionally, Howard provided us with in depth analysis and feedback on team status and development – highly useful.”

Darren Willshire, Commercial Director, West

Overview

Presented by experienced leaders; moving your business to being more plan-led is not simply a process change; it is a philosophical shift in the way you undertake and manage maintenance. It is about being data-driven and using all the data to intelligently apply maintenance that ensures your service objectives are met whilst controlling costs and improving quality.

This workshop introduces the concept and gives the leaders the tools they need to engage the business proactively in plan-led maintenance.

Key topics:

1.  The plan-led concept, the philosophy of ‘one-stop shop’ and ‘pit-lane’ maintenance

2. Service at the right cost - tools to manage service delivery, whilst controlling costs better

3. The planning cycle - the accountability shift in the business, the role planning takes, the extended horizons required.

4. Governance and executive reporting. Generating the right behaviours and metrics to empower the philosophy.

EngPro Approach

For this workshop we always place a senior experienced executive leader at the front of the room. Using a combination of some experiential learning techniques, fused with much Q&A stimulated from the delegate group the course evolves to meet your needs.

There is a presentation pack, but this is in the main subordinated by discussions and flip chart workings. Typically then end of this workshop sees an action list of activities to tackle. A very stimulating day as is shown below in some delegate comments.

Previous Clients:

“I enjoyed the course and thought Howard had the right balance of challenging the attendees and supporting good open discussions” – Production Manager, Bounds Green

“The course was very good but highlighted that as an organisation we need more data to become more data driven.” - Senior executive, Rail TOC

“The course was delivered in an easy-to-understand manner, using examples that were directly related to our business, or examples that could be interpreted easily. The course slide deck was not overly complicated or contained too much detail or info.” - Outstations Manager, Hitachi Rail Ltd.

“Excellent. Howard has lots of experience in the transport industry and transfers as much knowledge as he can from the outset” Team Leader, Train Depot, OEM provider

Specifications:

Duration: 1 day

Location: Ideally onsite, but can be delivered online

Delivery style: Experienced leader, facilitating your learning and sharing key experience and knowledge

Target Audience: Production Managers; Planning Managers; Depot Leadership; Company Executives

Typical co-hort size: 9 to 12 delegates

Key skills learnt:  

  • A review of traditional ‘exam’ planning, discussion of limitations

  • Understanding of what plan-led means - history and future

  • Discussion on some of the challenges and where it will leave a business needing to change

  • The interfaces with Technical, Materials and crucially, Operations

  • Workflow and process issues

  • People engagement in the new approach, how it changes their world for the better

  • Productivity and effective staff utilisation

  • Matching rosters to work demand

  • High-level understanding of load and capacity

  • Reliabity centred mainteance, using the tools we haveeffectively

  • Asset management (vehicle)

  • Asset optimisation (facilities)

  • Weekly and daily governance cycles

  • Executive reporting

Scoping

  • During scoping with yourselves we select the most effective topics from the above list.

Case studies:

  • Our facilitators have many years experience planning in Aviation, Bus and Rail - they bring several case studies and real-if working examples to allow delegates to immerse themselves in the topic and the reality of planning a complex business.

  • Exercises are used throughout to allow depth of learning.

Accreditation: This course counts 7 hours CPD, for Engineering Council UKSPEC competences C.

Certification: If requested eCertificates for attendance can be provided.

Examination: This course has no examination, although post workshop activities can be set to allow your company to leverage learning further.

Supporting materials: Life-long access to our extensive delegate resource centre; all materials for the training delivery; all in-class exercises; further reading advice.

Additional costs: Nil - the price we will quote is inclusive of travel, substance and any other associated costs.