Course Description
Maintenance auditing and benchmarking provide the structured means to assess the current state of a maintenance organisation, identify gaps, and prioritise improvements against recognised best practice. This course equips participants to audit maintenance and reliability performance and benchmark their organisation against industry standards.
Participants learn to apply maintenance maturity assessment, use SMRP metrics and the maintenance best-practice pillars, and translate audit findings into a practical improvement roadmap. The course draws on established benchmarking approaches used across world-class maintenance organisations.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose and value of maintenance auditing
- Apply maintenance maturity assessment models
- Use SMRP metrics and KPIs for benchmarking
- Assess the current state of a maintenance organisation
- Identify gaps against best practice
- Benchmark performance against industry standards
- Translate findings into a prioritised improvement roadmap
- Communicate audit results to management
How the course is delivered
The course combines maintenance audit methodology with hands-on benchmarking exercises using SMRP metrics and best-practice frameworks. Participants practise assessing maturity and building improvement roadmaps from audit findings.
Real-world benchmarking examples ground the methodology in world-class maintenance practice.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Maintenance and reliability managers
- Continuous improvement professionals
- Maintenance auditors and assessors
- Operations managers driving performance
- Consultants assessing maintenance organisations
Daily programme
- Why audit and benchmark maintenance
- Maintenance best-practice pillars
- Maintenance maturity models
- The audit process
- SMRP metrics and the five pillars
- Maintenance and reliability KPIs
- Benchmarking approaches and data
- Interpreting performance indicators
- Assessing the current state
- Gap analysis against best practice
- Evidence gathering and interviews
- Scoring and maturity assessment
- Prioritising improvement opportunities
- Building the improvement roadmap
- Business case and communication
- Case study workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
