Plant Maintenance Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply maintenance planning and scheduling techniques to optimize plant availability.
• Implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce equipment failures.
• Analyze maintenance data to identify trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Evaluate maintenance procedures to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Demonstrate effective communication and coordination with maintenance teams and stakeholders.
• Design a basic maintenance management system using relevant tools and documentation.

Target Audience

This course is designed for maintenance supervisors, plant engineers, and technicians responsible for maintaining industrial equipment and machinery. It is also suitable for operations managers seeking to improve maintenance efficiency.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Hands-on practicals are essential for developing competence in plant maintenance tasks. Learners will perform mechanical inspections, electrical testing, predictive maintenance techniques, and shutdown planning exercises in a simulated workshop environment.

Practical Activities

• Mechanical Inspection and Lubrication — Learners inspect bearings, belts, and chains; apply correct lubrication using grease guns and oil cans; and use callipers to measure wear. (4h)
• Electrical Isolation and Motor Control — Learners perform safe isolation, test circuits with a multimeter, and wire a basic motor starter circuit. (4h)
• Predictive Maintenance: Vibration and Thermography — Learners collect vibration data using a handheld analyser and capture thermal images of running equipment; interpret results to identify faults. (4h)
• Shutdown Planning and Root Cause Analysis — Learners plan a short shutdown using a Gantt chart, identify critical path, and conduct an RCA on a simulated failure. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	40% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.