Course Description

The Corrective and Preventive Maintenance Program training is designed to provide participants with practical knowledge and skills to effectively plan, execute, and manage maintenance activities that ensure equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and improve operational performance. This course focuses on building structured preventive maintenance (PM) systems, implementing corrective maintenance (CM) strategies, improving fault diagnosis, and applying best practices in maintenance planning, scheduling, documentation, and continuous improvement. Participants will also learn how to integrate maintenance programs with safety, spare parts management, and reliability-based approaches.

Course Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:

  • Understand the concepts and importance of corrective and preventive maintenance
  • Differentiate between reactive, corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance strategies
  • Develop preventive maintenance plans and maintenance schedules
  • Perform effective troubleshooting and root cause identification for equipment failures
  • Improve maintenance documentation, reporting, and work order control
  • Apply maintenance KPIs to measure and improve maintenance performance
  • Reduce breakdown frequency and increase equipment availability and reliability
  • Establish maintenance procedures aligned with safety and operational requirements
  • Manage spare parts and maintenance resources effectively
  • Implement continuous improvement practices for maintenance excellence

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for maintenance engineers, technicians, supervisors, planners, and facility managers responsible for equipment upkeep and reliability.

Course Agenda

Registration

Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Day 1: Maintenance Fundamentals & Maintenance Strategy Framework

  • Introduction to maintenance management and maintenance excellence
  • Why equipment fails: common failure mechanisms
  • Maintenance strategies overview:

           Reactive maintenance

           Corrective maintenance

           Preventive maintenance

           Predictive maintenance

           Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) concept

  • Key maintenance terminology and definitions
  • Corrective Maintenance (CM):

           Planned corrective vs unplanned corrective

           Breakdown maintenance impact on operations

  • Preventive Maintenance (PM):

           Time-based vs usage-based PM

           Maintenance workflow overview (request → planning → execution → closure)

Day 2: Preventive Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

  • Preventive maintenance program structure
  • Building PM checklists and task lists
  • Developing equipment maintenance routines:

             Lubrication plans

            Inspection schedules

            Cleaning and adjustment routines

  •  Creating maintenance plans based on:

            OEM manuals

            historical failure data

            criticality analysis

  • Equipment criticality ranking (ABC method)
  • Maintenance planning and scheduling best practices
  • Work order management and job planning
  • Permit-to-work and safety integration in PM

Day 3: Corrective Maintenance & Troubleshooting Techniques

  • Corrective maintenance process and best practices
  • Troubleshooting methodology:

           Symptom identification

           fault isolation

           verification and testing

  • Tools for fault diagnosis:

           vibration basics

           thermography basics

           oil analysis basics

           electrical testing overview

  • Failure modes and early warning signs
  • Maintenance response planning for critical equipment
  • Emergency breakdown handling procedure
  • Maintenance quality control and repair standards

Day 4: Documentation, KPIs, Spare Parts & Maintenance Cost Control

  • Maintenance documentation essentials:

            job cards

            work orders

            maintenance history logs

  • Introduction to CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
  • Equipment history and failure trend analysis
  • Spare parts management:

           critical spares identification

           reorder levels and inventory planning

           spare part classification

  • Maintenance performance measurement (KPIs):

          MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

          MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)

          Availability and reliability indicators

          Planned vs unplanned maintenance ratio

          Maintenance backlog control

  • Maintenance cost control methods

Day 5: Preventive Maintenance Optimization & Continuous Improvement

  • PM optimization and improving effectiveness
  • Identifying over-maintenance and under-maintenance
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) concepts:

           5 Whys

           Fishbone diagram

           Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) overview

           Developing corrective action and preventive action plans (CAPA)

  • Maintenance reliability improvement program:

           condition monitoring integration

           predictive maintenance introduction

  • Maintenance audit and continuous improvement cycles
  • Developing a full corrective and preventive maintenance roadmap
  • Course wrap-up and action plan

Post Test

End of the Course

Assessment Methodology

All courses conducted by EdTech will begin with a Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This will help to recognize the benefits and the level of knowledge gained by participants through the course.

Training Methodology

Facilitated by a highly qualified specialist, who has extensive knowledge and experience; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage.

Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

  • ​40% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and approach
  • 20% Motivation to develop individual skill and Techniques
  • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
  • 20% Topic General Discussions and interaction

Course Manual

Participants will be provided with comprehensive presentation material as reference manual. This presentation material is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading which will be used as a part of the material guide.

Course Certificate

At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Training Participation Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

Why Edtech ?

  • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
  • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
  • Intensive Study materials
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Realistic training methodology
  • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
  • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.