FrontLine Maintenance Management Course

Overview

Duration:	3 days
Cost:	£800 per person
Frequency:	On average four times a month
Objective:	Delegates will gain a comprehensive understanding of the system, sufficent to implement and/or use the system in a structured, efficient and cost effective way.
Overview:	The delegate will be taught to create assets, job descriptions, planned maintenance schedules, generate weekly job sheets, control work, raise additional corrective and breakdown jobs and sign off completed work. The course also contains a comprehensive management reporting section and essential control functions such as security and data backup.
Audience:	Suitable for anyone who needs a complete understanding of the capabilities of FrontLine or for those who intend to implement and control the system.
Prerequisites:	Familiarity with the concepts of Windows systems. Basic keyboard skills and the ability to use a mouse.

Detailed Content:

Introduction & Navigation

A brief overview of the system's functions and processes supported, coupled with some basic windows navigational hints and tips.

Search & Selection

Locating assets and using the asset record to locate planned, current and completed work details.

Adding New Records

The creation of new clients, sites and predominantly assets. Discussion of numbering systems and grouping structures. This section also covers the copying and cloning of assets to speed data entry.

Code Tables

The set-up and maintenance of code tables (drop down help files) to increase speed of data entry and ensure data integrity. This section is primarily for those who will initially set up the system.

Maintenance Tasks

Setting up task details, the differences between fixed, variable and annual maintenance, job estimating and allocation.

Planned Maintenance

Combining tasks with assets to form maintenance plans. Amending plans and the use of the service category. This section also introduces the concept of the interactive planner.

Converting Plans Into Work

Releasing planned maintenance to produce work orders, on a system wide, group or single asset basis.

Usage Based Maintenance

A different way to plan maintenance by using meter readings to generate jobs as required. Setting up meters, entering readings and the use of meter reports.

Condition Monitoring

The setting up and recording of measurements to monitor the operating criteria of assets, and analysis of the recorded data.

More Advanced Code Tables

A further section of tables concerned with the more advanced functions of the system such as work permits, charging and personnel. Once again this section is primarily for those who will initially set up the system.

Work Control - The Helpdesk

Searching for open and closed work orders and requests. Adding new corrective work orders / requests, allocating work, authorising requests and printing.

Signing Off Work

Closing planned / corrective work orders and requests. Adding analytical details such as downtime, labour hours, parts costs, and breakdown information.

Creating Additional Events

The recording of breakdowns or historical data to an asset, without the need for work orders. This section also covers group change.

Checklist Tasks

A way of reducing paperwork by combining a series of jobs on similar assets into a single work order.

Inspection & Test Scheduling

The scheduling, production of work orders and sign-off for inspection and safety testing checks that are not scheduled in the main maintenance planner.

Standard Reports & Design

Running standard reports, selecting, sorting, printing and exporting data to other systems. Designing your own reports using basic report templates.

System Control & Administration

For key users: The configuration of screen layouts, processing rules, calendar set-up, work sequencing, date, time and currency settings, creating new users, security access, password control, general management and data backup.