MCP Consulting Group Ltd

08/09/2026

The updated MCP Management Training course calendar is now available to download.

If you’re planning development for maintenance managers, supervisors or engineering leaders, the latest calendar provides a clear overview of upcoming course dates so you can organise training well in advance.

Our management programmes cover key areas such as maintenance best practice, planning and scheduling, reliability and asset management, helping organisations strengthen leadership capability and improve operational performance. ()

Whether you’re developing new engineering managers or enhancing the skills of experienced maintenance leaders, the calendar makes it easier to plan the right training at the right time.

⬇️ Download the updated calendar here:
https://zurl.co/LdRuf

07/09/2026

Your maintenance history tells you what's happened. Benchmarking tells you what it means.

Recurring breakdowns.

Increasing maintenance costs.

Growing backlogs.

These trends don't appear overnight. They're often hidden in your maintenance history, waiting to be recognised.

But here's the challenge...

How do you know if your maintenance performance is actually good?

Without a benchmark, it's difficult to know whether you're improving, standing still or falling behind.

That's why organisations around the world use AMIS Maintenance Benchmarking.

Using over 35 years of industry experience and data from more than 1,500 manufacturing sites, the AMIS Assessment compares your maintenance practices against proven best practice across ten key areas, including planning, maintenance effectiveness, CMMS, continuous improvement and people.

It's not just about understanding your maintenance history.

It's about understanding how your organisation measures up, where the gaps are, and what actions will deliver the biggest improvements.

👉 Find out more about AMIS Maintenance Benchmarking and start your journey towards maintenance excellence: https://zurl.co/VzXNp

Maintenance Benchmarking is critical for businesses who are looking to make improvements. The easiest and quickest place to start is with the AMIS Benchmarking Tool.

02/09/2026

The most expensive maintenance problem is often the one that keeps happening.

If you've repaired the same asset three, four or even five times, your maintenance history is trying to tell you something.

Instead of asking:

"How do we fix it again?"

Ask:

"Why does this failure keep returning?"

Maintenance history isn't just a record of completed jobs. It's one of your best tools for identifying trends, challenging assumptions and preventing future failures.

The organisations that improve reliability don't just collect maintenance data.

They learn from it.

👉 Read our latest blog and discover how maintenance history can support better decision-making across your operation: https://zurl.co/9ksGy

31/08/2026

Your maintenance history is talking. Are you listening?

Every work order, breakdown and recurring fault tells a story.

The question is... are you using that information to improve maintenance, or simply recording it?

Your maintenance history can reveal:
✔ Repeating equipment failures
✔ Ineffective preventive maintenance
✔ Hidden reliability issues
✔ Opportunities to improve planning and scheduling

Looking backwards isn't about dwelling on the past. It's about making better decisions for the future.

If you're only using your CMMS to record maintenance activity, you could be missing valuable insights sitting in your own data.

👉 Read our latest blog to discover what your maintenance history might be trying to tell you: https://zurl.co/Lxh8e

27/08/2026

Are skills gaps holding your maintenance team back?

Knowing where the gaps are is the first step. Knowing how to address them is where things get practical.

Join MCP Technical Training for our free Workshop Day on 2 October in Solihull, designed to help manufacturing businesses explore how structured technical training can strengthen workforce capability.

🔧 Take part in a hands-on Maintenance Development Centre session
⚡ Try our electrical skills training rigs
🔩 Experience practical mechanical training
👷‍♂️ Explore what good maintenance looks like in practice
🤝 Meet our expert trainers and network with industry peers

Whether you're looking to upskill engineers, identify areas for development or build a stronger maintenance team, come and see our training in action.

📅 2 October 2026 | 9:30am–3pm
📍 Solihull, West Midlands
🎟️ Free to attend

👉 Find out more and register: https://zurl.co/ap9jc

26/08/2026

Collecting asset data is only half the story. The real value comes from knowing what to do with it.

An asset register can tell you what you have.

A CMMS can tell you what has happened.

But neither tells you what you should do next.

Should you prioritise a FMECA? Which assets are truly business critical? Are your maintenance plans reducing risk, or simply adding more work?

Turning information into better maintenance decisions requires the right knowledge, not just the right software.

That's exactly what our Maintenance Best Practice course is designed to help with.

Over four days, you'll explore topics including:
✔ Asset criticality
✔ Maintenance strategy
✔ FMECA and failure analysis
✔ CMMS and maintenance information systems
✔ Reliability improvement and continuous improvement

If your organisation has invested in collecting asset data, this course will help you make that information work harder for your maintenance team and your business.

📅 Next classroom course: 7 to 10 September
📍 Solihull

Book now: https://zurl.co/0v6Vo

24/08/2026

An asset register tells you what you have. It doesn't tell you what to do next.

Knowing every asset on site is valuable.

Knowing which assets are costing you the most in downtime, maintenance spend or lost production is even more valuable.

The organisations that achieve the best maintenance performance don't stop at collecting data. They use it to:

• Prioritise maintenance activities.
• Improve planning and scheduling.
• Reduce recurring failures.
• Make informed investment decisions.

Good data supports good decisions, but only when it's turned into meaningful action.

How are you using your asset data to improve performance?

If you'd like to learn more, our latest blog explores why collecting asset information is only the first step.

👉 Read it here: https://zurl.co/LB7Rx

Learn why successful asset collection includes condition surveys, maintenance history and data cleansing, creating the foundation for better maintenance decisions.

19/08/2026

Technology can collect asset data. People turn it into action.

Whether you're using a CMMS, conducting inspections or recording equipment history, the quality of your maintenance decisions depends on the knowledge of the people using that information.

That's why technical skills remain just as important as digital tools.

Understanding equipment behaviour, recognising early signs of failure and carrying out maintenance correctly all help ensure the data you're collecting is accurate, consistent and useful.

At MCP Technical Training, we help engineers build the practical skills needed to improve maintenance performance, reduce downtime and keep assets operating safely and efficiently.

Invest in your people, and your asset data becomes far more valuable.

👉 Explore our Technical Training courses and find the right programme for your team: https://zurl.co/a0pEU

17/08/2026

You can't improve what you haven't measured.

A FMECA can help you understand how individual assets might fail.

But before deciding where to invest your maintenance effort, ask yourself another question:

How mature is your maintenance function as a whole?

If maintenance planning is inconsistent, asset criticality hasn't been assessed, or teams are constantly firefighting, carrying out detailed analysis on every asset may not deliver the results you're looking for.

That's where a maintenance maturity assessment can make all the difference.

At MCP, our AMIS benchmarking tool helps organisations evaluate their current maintenance practices, identify areas for improvement, and prioritise the actions that will have the greatest impact on reliability and business performance.

It's a practical way to understand where you are today and where to focus next.

Curious how your maintenance function measures up?

Take our complimentary Mini AMIS Assessment and receive an initial score, followed by a personalised report with recommendations from one of our consultants.

👉 Start your assessment today: https://zurl.co/YEk3x