Episode 1 will introduce you to the concept of Maintenance Management. You will get to know a brief history of maintenance, its definition and the terminology related to it. The topic also demonstrates the importance of maintenance in asset management; the scope of maintenance management; its key components; and the strategies for effective and sustainable maintenance management.

Episode 9 will deal with systematic approaches to manage major maintenance projects such as semi and yearly maintenance, and major overhauls. You will learn about the characteristics of major maintenance projects and its activities. You will notice that major maintenance projects will warrant the cooperation of almost all the departments of the organisation to avoid unnecessary delays in the completion of the maintenance sub-activities. Lots of pre and post preparation work must be planned...

Episode 10 will discuss maintenance insourcing and outsourcing. An economic analysis methodology will be introduced to select the most cost effective option through their criteria and strategies of development. Outsourcing is the current trend to free the organisation from spending non-value added time on the non core activities.

Episode 7 will introduce the basic philosophies of the Japanese Institute of Preventive Maintenance's (JPIM) Total Productive Maintenance or famously known as TPM. These philosophies form the pillars of the TPM. TPM, an organisation-wide programme also warrants the participation from supporting departments such as purchasing and office administration. The sub-topics will address strategies for implementing the five pillars of TPM and steps in TPM implementation.

Episode 8 will discuss the principles of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) which reduces major production losses through increased availability and reliance on critical equipment compared to conventional types of equipment. Two major tools, Fault Tree Analysis and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), will form a major part of discussion before proceeding to others sub-topics such as its benefits and strategies of RCM.

Episode 6 will discuss the importance of condition-based maintenance (CBM) compared to other time-based maintenance activities. Since condition based maintenance is cost intensive, you will note that care should be taken to ensure that it is not opted as a non-value added activity using life cycle cost analysis. As such the methodical approaches from selection to the execution of conditioned based maintenance will form the major part of the topic. Last but not least, the advantages and...

Episode 4 will discuss the different types of maintenance activities that must be performed daily, weekly, monthly, semi-yearly and yearly throughout the entire life cycle of the equipment. This is important as planned maintenance will establish and maintain optimal equipment and manufacturing/process conditions. It is being used as it is an efficient and cost-effective system. Last but not least, you will also learn the process of, as well as how to do a planned maintenance master plan.

Episode 5 will discuss the essential tools associated with selecting, executing and sustaining maintenance activities. Some of the tools include methodical approaches that will guide maintenance personnel to manage equipment at basic operating conditions. To establish maintenance management as a sustainable activity, appropriate soft tools (P-M analysis procedure and breakdown analysis) will also be presented.

Episode 2 will introduce the key essentials of maintenance management policy options and decisions along with the deployment of holistic approaches for sustainable maintenance programmes. The topic will also include a basic organisation structure for an effective maintenance management system.

Episode 3 will introduce the technical and soft skills, and IT requirements associated with maintenance management. An introduction to the existing IT software that are both stand- alone and web-based will be dealt with. Besides these, the skill requirements needed to handle other activities offline will be addressed too. Some emphasis will also be placed on tools requirements. Current technological trends in maintenance management will also be included in this topic.