Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, effective maintenance planning and scheduling are essential to keeping equipment running reliably, safely, and cost-effectively. This two-day course is designed to help maintenance and operations professionals strengthen their planning and scheduling practices to reduce downtime, control costs, and improve overall equipment performance.
Participants will explore the core elements of maintenance planning and scheduling, including work order development, job planning, critical equipment identification, safety and compliance considerations, and coordination with production schedules. The course also covers key tools such as root cause analysis, performance metrics, inventory cost control, and the use of CMMS and mobile technologies to support maintenance operations. Real-world exercises focus on productivity improvement, labor utilization, and decision-making around in-house versus contracted work.
By the end of the course, participants will be better equipped to build structured, efficient maintenance plans, improve collaboration between maintenance and operations, and apply best practices that drive continuous improvement. Attendees will leave with practical tools and strategies they can immediately use to increase reliability, extend asset life, and enhance the value of the maintenance function within their organization.
Course Outline
Day One
- Classroom Introductions and Establishing Seminar Goals
- Why Maintenance is Critical to Organizational Success
- Safety Compliance Issues: Dealing with OSHA and MSHA
- Elements of the Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Process:
- Work Order Detail
- Creating a Detailed Job Plan
- Time Motion Analysis & the Leverage of Planning
Day Two
- The Planner/Scheduler Tool Kit:
- Controlling Inventory Repair Parts Costs
- The Maintenance-Operations Planning Meeting
- Using Metrics & Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- The Application of Computer-Based Maintenance Management System (CMMS); or Not
- Marketing the Facilities Maintenance Department
- What’s Available in Mobile Technology
Register by September 20, 2025!
In Partnership with:
DATE & TIME:
- May 6-7, 2026
- 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION:
- Maryland MEP
- 8894 Stanford Blvd, Suite 304 Columbia, MD 21045
COST:
- $1,095 per person
CONTACT:
For more information about this training, please contact:
Sara Keith
DEADLINE TO REGISTER:
September 20, 2025
Maryland manufacturers
Maryland MEP Incumbent Worker Training Program
Maryland MEP through the Maryland Department of Labor’s EARN initiative has made funding available for Maryland manufacturers to assist with the total cost of training for incumbent workers. To be eligible, your organization must be registered with Dun and Bradstreet and have a valid manufacturing NAICS code, and have a physical location in Maryland.
About TPC Training
Jeff Cochran
Partner - Shaprio Negotiations Institute
TPC Training offers training, performance, & compliance solutions to build a better, safer, more efficient workforce. TPC Training make individuals and organizations safe, knowledgeable, and more efficient by providing education, training, and workforce management solutions through practical business consulting and advanced technology platforms.
The TPC Difference:
- More than 1,000 course hours with complete coverage of technical maintenance, safety, and skills training topics.
- A complete portfolio of training methods, including online, classroom, and on-the-job, to fit every need and budget.
- Fully customized courseware to meet the training needs of every business and job function.
- Four decades of industrial training experience on behalf of more than 40,000 clients worldwide.
Jeff has delivered customized programs for clients across many functions and sectors, including: Financial Services (Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.P.Morgan Chase); Government (Defense Acquisition University, Department of Treasury); Pharmaceutical (Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-aventis, Bristol Myers Squibb); Insurance (GeneralReinsurance, Nationwide); Telecommunications (Verizon, Comcast); Medical Devices (Toshiba Medical Systems, Siemens Medical); Sports (Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, Madison Square Garden); Media (ESPN, Hearst Corporation); Aerospace/Manufacturing (Boeing, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney), and a host of others. Jeff also works closely with the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partnership, an exclusive membership-only group personally coached by Tony Robbins.
Thanks to Jeff’s global experience, he is often asked to speak on international and cross-cultural negotiations. Equally, having served as both a sales manager and sales trainer—and having trained hundreds of procurement professionals—he offers a unique 360-degree perspective on procurement and sales.
Before joining SNI in 2000, Jeff was an Account Manager for Tessco Technologies, the nation’s largest communications infrastructure supplier. He managed a portfolio of over 250 accounts including Mitsubishi Electronics. In his role as corporate sales trainer, Jeff was responsible for educating new sales professionals and handled new hire training for Tessco, a company that had grown to $196 million in annual sales at the time of his leaving.
Jeff’s first career was working in Nepal for three years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. Assigned to the Nepal Bank Ltd., he used his status as an outside foreign advisor to successfully implement a micro-lending project targeting poor farmers and small business entrepreneurs to help them form borrowing co-ops.
