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Spare Parts & Materials Management

Managing spares as a reliability control rather than a stores chore: criticality-driven stocking policies, clean material master data, interchangeability and equivalents, rotable repair loops, preservation of stored items, obsolescence planning and reservations that keep planned jobs supplied. For materials, warehouse, planning, maintenance and reliability people.

55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Explain why spares availability is a reliability outcome, not just a stores performance measure
  • Classify spares by criticality and select the stocking policy that fits each class
  • Judge the quality of a material master record and describe what poor data costs the plant
  • Apply interchangeability rules and manage rotables through a closed repair-and-return loop
  • Specify preservation and shelf-life controls for stored spares and verify they are being applied
  • Plan for obsolescence with OEMs and reserve materials so planned jobs are never short

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • Spares Are a Reliability Problem, Not a Stores Problem
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Criticality Drives the Stocking Policy
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Awareness Check: Criticality and Consequence
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Material Master Data and What Bad Data Costs
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Interchangeability, Equivalents and the Rotable Loop
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Knowledge Check: Data, Equivalents and Rotables
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • Preservation in Store and Serving the Plan
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Spares Health Check on a Critical Asset
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill Check: Preservation and Availability Judgement
    Assessment
    8m
4

Mastery

  • Obsolescence, End of Life and Owning the Spares Portfolio
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Obsolescence and Insurance Spare Review
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery Assessment: Spares Strategy Under Pressure
    Assessment
    8m

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