Where is this course held?

Upcoming sessions run in Frankfurt, Dubai, Amsterdam, London, Istanbul, Vienna, Barcelona, Cape Town, Geneva.

How much does the course cost?

Fees start from £2,840 per delegate, depending on the city. Fees include tuition and course materials.

Do participants receive a certificate?

Yes. Delegates who complete the course receive a London Leadership Management Innovation certificate of completion.

Can this course be delivered in-house for our team?

Yes. LLMI can tailor and deliver this course privately for your organisation at your premises or in one of our training cities.

Certificate in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (CPPM) Training Course

Q: How long is the Certificate in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (CPPM) course?

The course runs over 5 days of classroom training, usually Monday to Friday.

Q: When is the next Certificate in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (CPPM) course?

The next public date is 21 - 25 Dec 2026 in Frankfurt. There are 13 upcoming dates in total.

Course overview

Why Attend

The military initially pioneered preventive maintenance as a means to increase the reliability of their naval vessels. By simply expending the necessary resources to conduct maintenance activities intended by the equipment designer, equipment life is extended and its reliability is increased. In addition to an increase in reliability, more money is saved in comparison to the cost of a program just using reactive maintenance. Studies indicate that these savings can amount to as much as 12% to 18% on the average. Depending on a facility's current maintenance practices, present equipment reliability, and facility downtime, there is little doubt that many facilities are purely reliant on reactive maintenance. By implementing a proper preventative maintenance program, they could save much more than 18%.

This course will give participants an in-depth understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance practices; it will also cover a number of best practice techniques such as Total Productive Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Condition Based Monitoring, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, and Root Cause Failure Analysis.

Course Methodology

The course is interactive and comprises lectures, case studies, technical process learning, and supplemental discussions covering various industries and implementation challenges.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Develop, implement and supervise the preventive and predictive maintenance program
Implement the latest techniques and management styles of leading facilities and maintenance management practices
Optimize the effectiveness of maintenance, by using sophisticated techniques and methods, to economize time, money and resources
Prevent and limit equipment failures, and rework to improve the equipment's overall effectiveness and reliability
Decrease downtime and increase profit for their organization

Target Audience

This course is designed for all Maintenance Managers/Engineers, Supervisors and Planning Engineers. It is also suitable for those who are in operations, engineering and purchasing/materials divisions and who would like to acquire an understanding of how the quality of the maintenance function affects their department, and their organization's bottom-line.

Target Competencies

Develop Maintenance Programs
Implement Maintenance Programs
Optimize Maintenance Resources
Implement Best Practice Maintenance Techniques

Course outline

1Day 1: Maintenance overview & Common issues in an organization & Introduction to asset management
- Maintenance overview
- What is maintenance?
- Building a best in class asset register
- Formulating the maintenance policy
- Defining maintenance standards and allocation of resources
- Applying maintenance strategies
- Common issues in an organization
- Lack of accountability
- Resource level issues
- Work requests with insufficient information or duplicated
- Importance of time writing daily
- Technical history retention
- KPI reviews - how often and why
- Introduction to asset management
- ISO55000 asset management definitions
- Assets and asset systems
- Different stages of life cycle
- Asset management decisions and optimization
- Understanding objectives, cost, critical factors and risk
2Day 2: Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) set-up and more
- Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) set-up
- CMMS set-up
- Criticality assignment SCE
- Production critical
- Non-critical
- Class and classification assessment and allocation
- Defining asset register systems
- Packages
- Equipment assignment
- Allocation of main work centers
- Cost center assignment(s)
- Bills of Material (BOMs) advantages
- Work identification and requesting
- Work preparation: what is required and why
- Equipment assignment to the correct level
- Assigning prioritization - the benefits in using prioritization
- Best-in-class information required through Corrective Maintenance - Predictive Maintenance (CM-PM) work order(s)
- Roles and responsibilities for work preparation
- Work planning and estimating
- Reviewing past history and the benefits to work planning
- Allocation of correct resources and hours
- Identifying materials using Bills of Material (BOMs)
- Allocation of external resources with or without Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Consider building relationships between activities within work order operations
- Pre-scheduling through criticality – prioritization
3Day 3: Work scheduling and execution & Quality feedback reporting
- Work scheduling and execution
- Preparing a rolling schedule - What needs to be considered
- Aligning activities including input from other departments and any pre or post work
- Leveling/smoothing of resources through resource center availability
- Dates and priorities how they impact scheduling
- Creating and agreeing the schedule for the next 7 to 14 days meetings
- Importance of publishing the 7-day scheduled activities
- 30, 60 and 90-day schedule look-ahead meetings
- Time-writing daily and why it improves scheduling control
- Handling emergent work and the impact to the schedule
- Considering Extra Ordinary Maintenance (EOM) to control corrective maintenance high expenditure
- Standard routine procedure instruction(s)
- Toolbox talk
- Importance of auditing work execution
- Quality feedback reporting
- Benefits of feedback forms and technical history retention
- Technical history review and sign off
- Retention of technical history - The importance to future work preparation
- Meeting reviews - What went well and where improvements can be made
4Day 4: Completion and work control & Data analysis techniques & Maintenance replacement decisions;
- Completion and work control
- Updating the future maintenance plans(s) and asset register through technical history feedback
- Review of estimated versus planned versus actual costs
- Review of man-hours expended versus estimated
- Material usage - Question were any materials not used returned to stock?
- Correctly signing off work order/work request through the CMMS system
- Data analysis techniques
- Forecasting man hours, material allocation and Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Identification of bad actors through the CMMS system
- Expenditure reporting
- PM compliance reporting
- Schedule compliance reporting
- CM backlog reporting
- Reporting generic materials ordered
- Unscheduled fill-in work
- Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
- Maintenance replacement decisions;
- Component replacement procedures
- Age-based replacement policy
- Analysis of component failure data
- Using Weibull parameters
- Life-cycle costing
5Day 5: Downtime reduction & Performance reporting & Root Cause Analysis & Action plan
- Downtime reduction
- Tracking downtime
- Personnel training
- Importance of feedback from employees
- Outsourcing considerations
- Considering using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Performance reporting
- Primary reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Secondary reporting KPIs
- Leading and lagging KPIs
- Root Cause Analysis
- Apollo Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Combining Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and RCA together
- Gathering data and evidence using class and characteristics
- 5 Why Process:
- Cause and effect chart
- Fishbone analysis
- Line of sight
- Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Action plan
- Management of Change (MOC) process
- Continuous Improvement (CI) techniques

Schedule

Dates and fees

13 upcoming dates in 9 cities. Fees are per delegate; bring colleagues and every seat is discounted.

All dates as PDF

December 2026

21DEC 21 - 25 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 daysNext session

FrankfurtGermany · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

January 2027

18JAN 18 - 22 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

DubaiUnited Arab Emirates · Classroom

£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each

February 2027

15FEB 15 - 19 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

AmsterdamNetherlands · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

March 2027

15MAR 15 - 19 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each

April 2027

19APR 19 - 23 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

IstanbulTurkey · Classroom

£2,850per delegate2+ people: £2,280 each

May 2027

17MAY 17 - 21 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ViennaAustria · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

June 2027

21JUN 21 - 25 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

July 2027

19JUL 19 - 23 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

Cape TownSouth Africa · Classroom

£2,840per delegate2+ people: £2,272 each

August 2027

16AUG 16 - 20 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

FrankfurtGermany · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

September 2027

20SEP 20 - 24 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

GenevaSwitzerland · Classroom

£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each

October 2027

18OCT 18 - 22 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

AmsterdamNetherlands · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

November 2027

15NOV 15 - 19 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each

December 2027

20DEC 20 - 24 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

IstanbulTurkey · Classroom

£2,850per delegate2+ people: £2,280 each

Certificate in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (CPPM)

Course overview

Why Attend

Course Methodology

Course Objectives

Target Audience

Target Competencies

Course outline

Dates and fees

Frequently asked questions

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