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Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Strategies

Many South African plants swing between reactive firefighting and rigid time based servicing that wastes labour and spares. This programme shows maintenance practitioners how to build a balanced preventive and predictive programme, choosing the right monitoring technique for each asset class, setting realistic service intervals, and using early warning data to plan work before breakdowns interrupt production.

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What you will be able to do

  • Compare preventive, predictive and reactive maintenance approaches and identify where each adds the most value.
  • Select monitoring techniques appropriate to specific asset types, operating conditions and failure modes.
  • Design preventive maintenance intervals based on manufacturer guidance, operating history and criticality.
  • Interpret condition data to distinguish genuine deterioration trends from normal operating noise.
  • Convert monitoring findings into scheduled work orders that fit existing planning systems.
  • Justify maintenance strategy changes to plant management using downtime and cost evidence.

Course outline

  1. 01Maintenance strategy types and selection criteria
  2. 02Failure modes and asset criticality ranking
  3. 03Time based servicing and interval setting
  4. 04Condition monitoring technique overview
  5. 05Reading and trending condition data
  6. 06Linking monitoring to work order systems
  7. 07Cost and downtime justification methods
  8. 08Building a site maintenance strategy plan

Who should attend

Maintenance engineers, reliability technicians, plant engineers and maintenance planners responsible for choosing or reviewing servicing strategies for production or process assets.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
13 to 15 Oct 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Durban3R13,000Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
27 to 29 Oct 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
28 to 30 Oct 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
4 to 6 Nov 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Nov 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
10 to 12 Nov 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
11 to 13 Nov 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
16 to 18 Nov 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
17 to 19 Nov 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
24 to 26 Nov 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
25 to 27 Nov 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Online3US$900Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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