Master Maintenance Planning
Equip your organization or yourself with world-class maintenance planning best practices. Our SCORM-compliant courseware is available in three flexible formats:
• On-Demand: Enroll individuals directly via our EAM University LMS.
• Licensable: Download and host the courseware on your internal LMS.
• Instructor-Led: High-impact virtual training delivered live by our engineers.
By institutionalizing these proven methodologies, you empower every team member to create precise job plans that drive elite performance, enhance safety, and maximize asset uptime.

Start Planning Like the Pros
Ready to upgrade your maintenance game? Our Effective and Precise Maintenance Planning course teaches you everything you need to know about implementing a “Maintenance by Plan” approach. You’ll learn how to create comprehensive maintenance plans, control costs, improve safety, and minimize downtime.
What You'll Get:
- A self-paced, comprehensive, online course
- Course materials and downloads
- Digital badge upon course completion
- Access to Maintenance Planning Tools
- The knowledge to create rich and accurate maintenance work plans
Who Should Take this Course?
Whether you’re a maintenance professional or just curious about improving asset management, our course is for you. It’s based on industry-proven practices and applicable to any EAM/CMMS solution.
Make Maintenance Planning Made Simple
EAM University’s Maintenance Planning Course will show you how to implement a planned approach to asset management. It will teach you how to develop a comprehensive maintenance planning effort to ensure all resources are available when needed. You’ll discover how to gather supportive data and build rich and actionable maintenance work plans to help you control maintenance costs, improve safety, and reduce equipment downtime.
Develop the skills to effectively plan maintenance work.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
This course explores the steps to develop and implement work plans in 5 comprehensive modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Maintenance Planning
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
- Explore the basics of maintenance planning: why it’s important, what it does, and how it makes maintenance work better.
- Identify tasks that benefit from planning and discover how to prioritize them.
Module 2: The Maintenance Planner
Estimated time to complete: 12 minutes
- Learn who can plan maintenance work.
- Explore what makes a maintenance planner successful in their role.
Module 3: Developing a Work Plan
Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes
- Explore a 3-step process to develop comprehensive and reusable work plans.
Unravel the intricacies of scoping and estimating, crafting an excellent work plan, and building a standard work library.
Module 4: Implementing a Work Plan
Estimated time to complete: 12 minutes
- See how maintenance plans are put into action.
- Explore the different tasks that happen before work is scheduled, after work is scheduled, and after work is complete.
Module 5: Crafting Planning Success
Estimated time to complete: 40 minutes
- Learn how to measure maintenance plan success.
- Explore the next steps for continuous improvement.
- Review key takeaways.
Module 1: Introduction to Maintenance Planning
- What is maintenance planning.
- What is the purpose of maintenance planning.
- Why is maintenance planning important / how does it benefit maintenance
operations. - What tasks could benefit from planning.
- How is planning prioritized
Module 2: The Maintenance Planner
- Who can plan maintenance work.
- Who are key figures / roles involved in planning.
- What does the planner do.
- How does a maintenance planner think about / approach maintenance work.
- What does a planner need to be successful
Module 3: Developing a Work Plan
- Who are the key people involved in planning a maintenance task.
- What are the steps to build a maintenance work plan.
- What is the foundation of a good estimate.
- What are the components of a work plan.
- What makes an excellent work plan.
- What is the purpose of a standard work template.
- How are standard work templates named.
Module 4: Implementing a Work Plan
- How is a work plan implemented.
- What is the role of the planner, supervisor, and scheduler during
implementation. - What are requirements for implementation success.
- When should implementation tasks be performed
Module 5: Crafting Building Facilities Planning Success
- How is work plan success measured.
- What are some key takeaways.
- How can surplus time be used (next steps).
Maintenance Planner Training Course
View a complete interactive demo of our Effective and Precise Maintenance Planning Course, no registration is required.
Gain valuable skills that can benefit your career and your organization.
Ready to take the next step? Enroll in our Effective and Precise Maintenance Planning Course today and start planning for success. Contact us for details!

Why Choose EAM University?
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