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A Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Planner

By Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson

“Without Proactivity in this Process, Chaos Will Dominate”

A Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Supervisor

A Daily Planner for Effective Maintenance Supervision

By Ricky Smith CMRP

Maintenance supervisor updates equipment status and production/operation changes.

A Shortcut to Higher Efficiency

Adding Short Repairs to PM’s

by Joel Levitt

Have you ever thought about building in short repairs to your PM schedule?

Backlog Management

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Few tools are as useful to managing the maintenance workload and effectiveness as the Maintenance Backlog. In many companies today management of the maintenance backlog has been neglected. As a result they are generally drowning in their own data. A poorly managed system has a dramatic effect on the entire delivery of maintenance services.

Challenges in Asset Management And ways that you can deal with them

by Michael Israel

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Asset Management: An Explanation

What is asset management?

There are varied points of view, no doubt. So let's get a generally acceptable perspective from two reliable sources:

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling…

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination

Excerpted by permission from Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Coordination by Don Nyman and Joel Levitt (Courtesy of Industrial Press)

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Considerations for Planning and Scheduling

by Howard Penrose PhD

Introduction

Planning and scheduling tasks tend to be based upon fixed times in both the internal and contracted maintenance arena. This can lead to inefficient or ineffective use of resources and the decline of the maintenance department towards reactive maintenance, further reducing the efficiency of the program. There are a number of ways to not only ensure proper completion of maintenance tasks, both scheduled and reactive, but also to improve wrench time.

Do Your Planners Have the Training they need to be Effective?

by Alan Warmack, Marshall Institute

Are you considering the implementation of Planning and Scheduling in your Maintenance group? Maybe you have already started the process and chosen the Planners to take you forward in your Continuous Improvement Process. In either case, strong consideration should be given to the types and levels of training your Planners have, or are going to receive in order to make them effective in their new job.

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Planning and scheduling functions are the key deliverables of the planning role. This is where the most gains in execution have the potential to be made and acted upon. In some larger organizations these are split, allowing more adequate resources for each role.

The role of the planner needs to cover the full range of the work order system, from input into coding, prioritization and a degree of autonomy in execution. As such these roles, more and more, need to be staffed by skilled and versatile people.

Maintenance Planning: Back to Basics

by Vito DeMalteris, Senior Consultant – IBM

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

Maintenance Planning is a concept and practice that has evolved in various industries over the years. I have seen Planning Departments function in modes anywhere from just being clerks…. to being responsible for all aspects of the maintenance function. The truth is that planners should be responsible for all aspects of planned work. This includes quite a bit of responsibility for the planner and as a result, they can be quite a benefit for the organization if utilized properly.

Maintenance Scheduling 101

By: Lorne MacDonald, PopWare Inc.

I've read and seen a lot of material about advanced maintenance scheduling techniques, but the reality is that most maintenance people are still struggling with the basics.

As a former Operations/Maintenance Coordinator who was sick and tired of operating in a reactive fire-fighting mode, I understood potential benefits of proper maintenance scheduling - the challenge was getting everyone on the same page. Industry experts suggest that in order to move from reactive to proactive maintenance, at least 80% of the work should be planned on a weekly basis and compliance to this schedule should be at least 90%.

Optimized Planning and Scheduling

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Dave Koelzer – VP, Process Improvement, Dimension Technology Solutions, Inc.

For asset-intensive operations, maximizing the use of maintenance dollars is critical. Put simply, planned and scheduled maintenance costs less than unscheduled and reactive maintenance. How much does it cost your organization for unplanned reactive work? How much for emergency work? We’ll explore how a small reduction in unplanned and emergency work can lead to significant cost reductions and improvement in real-world resource availability and productivity.

Planning and Scheduling: 2 Questions for Management to Ask

By R.D. (Doc) Palmer

How did we do on the weekly schedule? What is the biggest issue we had where I can help? These two simple questions form the majority of the maintenance manager's direction and control of maintenance efficiency and effectiveness.

Reliability Excellence and the Planner/Scheduler Function

by Life Cycle Engineering

Manufacturing and Facility maintenance organizations everywhere struggle with the challenge of providing operational capacity for their company or organization. Maintenance strives to accomplish this by increasing the reliability of the equipment or process through effective Preventive Maintenance and effective material and labor budget utilization.

Strategic Maintenance Planning

By Brad McCully, ATS

Why do we need to do Strategic Maintenance Planning?

In today's global competitive environment every manufacturer feels cost and price pressure. Performance improvement is required and it must happen immediately. As companies implement Lean manufacturing, the challenge is that the assets must perform well and maintenance must accomplish this on a limited budget.