Select the maintenance strategy for value engineering — run to failure, preventive, or condition-based — on evidence.
Value Engineering in Projects and Maintenance Work
A structured, applied course in value engineering — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Maintenance budgets are cut on value engineering in good years and paid for in bad ones. Participants leave with a method for this strand of engineering and maintenance work, not a set of opinions about it. Ambition around the wider engineering and maintenance work agenda outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting value engineering, ready to be adapted internally. Comparative studies of the engineering and maintenance work discipline across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a maintenance procedure for this aspect of engineering and maintenance work as they go. Participants who influence value engineering without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The final module sets out how progress on the engineering and maintenance work capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Specify acceptance criteria for work performed on value engineering.
Apply a repeatable review cycle to value engineering and act on what it produces.
Build a register of the risks attaching to value engineering and keep it current.
Anticipate the objections that value engineering will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Build the competence framework for technicians working on value engineering.
Determine the failure modes of value engineering and the consequence of each.
Who Should Attend
Risk managers assessing the exposure created by value engineering.
Finance staff assessing maintenance and replacement spend on value engineering.
Maintenance managers and planners responsible for value engineering.
Plant and facility managers accountable for availability of value engineering.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing value engineering.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting value engineering.
Course Modules
Value engineering: failure modes, consequence and criticality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing a maintenance strategy for value engineering on evidence
- Set the review interval for value engineering and who attends.
- Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on value engineering.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of value engineering before proposing changes.
- List the credible failure modes of value engineering and the consequence of each.
Session 2How value engineering actually fails, and how much warning you get
- Anticipate the objections value engineering will raise and prepare the answers.
- Test the procedure for value engineering against a realistic scenario.
- Verify six months later that changes to value engineering have held.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether value engineering is improving.
Value engineering: choosing the right maintenance strategy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating the failure on value engineering that keeps returning
- Define the trigger that would require value engineering to be redesigned.
- Close out actions on value engineering rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Map the handovers in value engineering between functions and secure them.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when value engineering underperforms.
Session 2Getting other functions to support value engineering
- Set maintenance indicators for value engineering that reward planning rather than heroics.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates value engineering is under control.
- Check that value engineering still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Prepare the summary of value engineering that senior management will read.
Value engineering: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Isolating value engineering safely before work begins
- Record what was learned when value engineering did not go as planned.
- Remove steps in value engineering that add effort without adding assurance.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for value engineering.
- Benchmark the organisation's value engineering against comparable operations.
Session 2Keeping value engineering alive after the initial push
- Investigate repeat failures on value engineering to root cause, not to component.
- Agree the smallest change to value engineering that would be visibly useful.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around value engineering are understood.
- Define acceptance criteria for value engineering in advance.
Value engineering: history, documentation and competence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What condition data on value engineering is telling you early
- Assign a criticality rating to value engineering that drives work order priority.
- Confirm that those complying with value engineering understand why it exists.
- Set escalation thresholds for value engineering that work out of hours.
- Identify where judgement in value engineering is legitimate and where it is not.
Session 2Building the method for value engineering step by step
- Define acceptance criteria for completed work on value engineering.
- Build the competence framework that supports value engineering.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to value engineering.
- Choose the maintenance strategy for value engineering based on failure pattern, not tradition.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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