Southern Company Generation utilized one scheduling tool to satisfy its needs for daily scheduling and outage planning following its enterprise implementation of Maximo
If you need to implement a new planning and scheduling program, you’re probably discovering that the task can be rather daunting. You need the right resources, the right organizational support, the right data, the right business practices, the right amount of time, the right change management approach, and the list goes on. This high level generic stuff may seem like implementing planning and scheduling just isn’t within your grasp. But there are ways to achieve an environment that will support a planning and scheduling program that works with what you already have in place and takes into account what your team is able to manage throughout implementation and beyond. If you take a closer look at what you already have, putting the final touches on a successful planning and scheduling program may not really be that big a beast to tackle.
A one hour recorded webinar on demand by Shon Isenhour, ABB Reliability Services.
Planning & Scheduling can't be as effective when it's a one-person show. Instead, a team-oriented planning and scheduling unit, which includes members from both maintenance and operations, can be used more successfully to improve overall plant reliability. This webinar will teach you how to build a training program that focuses on retention and communication techniques, and certifies key positions within your planning & scheduling organization are being filled by individuals with the highest level of skill.
Participate to learn:
1) Learn how to build a team to improve plant reliability
2) Understand the crucial elements for training retention
3) Realize the importance of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
An hour long presentation by Ken Arthur, Performance Consultant, GPAllied
Our production personnel can be the eyes and ears of the maintenance group if they are trained to know how equipment fails, what to look for, and how to report abnormalities. Operators are critical to helping an organization achieve early identification of problems, which then allows more time to plan, schedule, coordinate and execute work to prevent costly failures. Early identification of problems is one of the keys to planning & scheduling success, and a strong "Shop Floor" is oftentimes the missing ingredient.
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Easy to use mobile scheduling and planning app provides massive time savings
Stoneham, MA – InterPro Solutions announced the industry’s first mobile planning and scheduling solution: EZMaxPlanner, which enables Maximo scheduling teams to manage activities of any complexity and duration, including projects with sequencing dependencies, multi-party orchestration and defined milestones.
AVEVA establishes long-term partnership with Aker Solutions for the use of AVEVA Everything3D as a core part of the company’s strategic design platform
For most products (other than software-only products), any change from the original intent during development costs money (and extends schedule), and the cost of any particular change (along with the time impact caused by the change) increases with time . This increase in cost and schedule may not intuitively obvious, and as such may obfuscate the real reason that proper product development planning is so critical to the success of the product development.
Faced with the current level of globalization, mergers of companies seeking market leadership and the tough competitiveness between them, there is a constant search for process optimization, as well as materials, contracted services and workforce optimization. Increasing productivity in all areas has become an important and differential element for reducing business costs.
Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) scheduling, specifically weekly scheduling, should be a three-step procedure: (1) select ‘Generate Schedule,' (2) specify the week start date and (3) click ‘Run.' This scheduling feature should be resident within every CMMS product and selectable from the work order main screen. A CMMS can read an entire maintenance backlog within 60 seconds to produce a resource-leveled, weekly maintenance schedule. You might wonder why this has never been implemented (me, too!). I would think that every organization - and industry - would want something like this.
Reliabilityweb.com has released a new audio book that provides guidance on making drastic changes to improve an organization. Through telling the story of a plant manager, the authors of Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It! compare the plant manager’s journey to The Chambered Nautilus in the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and even to the journey in the Wizard of Oz.
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