Maintenance Costs Reduction Strategy without Undesirable Impact on Product Quality
10 - 11 SEPTEMBER 2026
COURSE INTRODUCTION
This programme helps maintenance and operations teams reduce avoidable cost without compromising product quality, safety or equipment reliability. Participants examine total maintenance cost, capital and revenue expenditure, cost drivers, work practices and improvement priorities to identify practical savings that support sustainable plant performance. Practical examples and guided discussion help participants connect the subject to decisions and challenges in their own workplace.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this programme, participants should be able to:
- Explain the components of total maintenance cost and their relationship to asset performance.
- Distinguish capital, revenue, fixed, variable and overhead maintenance costs.
- Identify avoidable cost drivers using maintenance, failure and work-execution data.
- Benchmark current practices and prioritise realistic improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate the cost and risk consequences of maintenance-strategy decisions.
- Develop cost-reduction actions that protect product quality, safety and equipment reliability.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This programme is suitable for maintenance engineers, mechanical engineers, reliability teams, technicians, supervisors, plant personnel and operations teams responsible for equipment performance.
COURSE CONTENT
- Total cost of maintenance and the relationship between cost, risk and plant performance
- Capital, revenue, fixed, variable and overhead maintenance costs
- Cost awareness, product costing and the consequences of false economy
- Maintenance-cost drivers, loss categories and data requirements
- Benchmarking and identification of relevant best practices
- Maintenance strategy, asset criticality and work-prioritisation decisions
- Opportunities in labour, materials, spare parts, contractors and work execution
- Implementation of cost reductions without compromising quality, safety or reliability
