Maintenance Management

This course is ideal for you if you are a Maintenance Planner, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance engineer or an Asset Manager

Online Course

The following themes are covered:

Theme 1: Reliability, Availability and Maintainability

Theme 2: Maintenance Planning

Theme 3: Organisation of Maintenance Resources

Theme 4: Maintenance Control

Theme 5: Maintenance Audits

Theme 6: Maintenance Materials Management

As part of the University of Pretoria’s hybrid learning environment our online courses provide you with lifelong learning opportunities presented by thought leaders right at your fingertips.

Literally access online programmes anywhere, at any time – perfect when you are strapped for time.

Why this specific course?

• Work at your own pace, in the comfort of your home.
• Receive a certificate from the University of Pretoria.
• The lecturer, Prof. Krige Visser, is registered as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and is a council member of the Southern African Asset Management Association (SAAMA). He was a member of the ISO committee that developed the new standard on Asset Management, ISO 55000. He is also a member of the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM). 

After successfully completing the course, you will be able to:

• Specify strategic objectives for the maintenance department
• Perform a system breakdown for a technical system
• Determine effective maintenance types for each component or item
• Develop a maintenance plan for a technical system
• Develop a performance indicator system maintenance
• Specify a maintenance resource structure
• Forecast the maintenance workload from historical data
• Perform a Pareto analysis for failures or cost of failure
• Perform a maintenance audit on a technical system, and
• Determine system reliability, given individual component reliability values.

The course consists of seven study themes.

• Each study theme contains study material (slides, prescribed and optional reading, videos, and so on).
• All themes except Theme 6 contains a self-test. Self-tests are not graded, but they prepare you for other graded assessments. For maximum benefit, try to get 70% for a self-test before moving on to the next theme.
• You should spend about 40–50 hours reviewing the study themes.

The final result will be calculated as follows:

• Final Test: 15%
• Assignment 1: 15%
• Assignment 2: 20%
• Assignment 3: 50%

Accrediting Body: ECSA 

Accreditation Number: P007385-2020

Number of CPD points awarded to course: 5

A certificate of successful completion will be issued by the University of Pretoria. Delegates are required to obtain a pass mark of 50%.