Please use your business email address if applicable

Visite nuestro sitio en Español

Search Results for planning and scheduling

Doc Palmer Joins People and Processes as a Partner

Jacksonville, Florida - Richard D. Palmer, PE, MBA, better known as Doc Palmer, author of the distinguished Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, joins People and Processes, Inc. as a partner to expand his participation in educating, leading, and consulting with companies on the practical implementation of successful Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (MPS) programs.

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.

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.

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%.

There Is No Tradeoff Between Empowering And Scheduling

R. D. (Doc) Palmer, PE, MBA, CMRP

Empowering maintenance crews and personnel means allowing them to make decisions within their areas of responsibility. This greatly increases the quality of maintenance work. However, empowering does not mean turning each of the specialized areas of maintenance loose on its own. The maintenance process takes a coordinated team effort to master and an explicit scheduling process is necessary to advance productivity. Superior maintenance requires both empowerment and scheduling. This paper explains where and how high performing maintenance organizations utilize and leverage each concept.

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.

Work Order Prioritization

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Too many organizations neglect the benefits of a clearly defined prioritization system. Even when they realize the importance the focus is invariably at a department or functional level. I have seen organizations where there are up to three or more prioritization systems. None of which are inter-related.

internet of things digitalization (iot)

The Journey to Data Driven Decision Making

Focusing on the Asset Criticality Assessment has enabled an appetite for a data driven maintenance program

CMMS and EAM

Work Order Execution and Data Capture

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

All of the work of backlog management, planning and priority targeted capacity scheduling are focused on efficient execution. To ensure that the tasks that need to be done, as per the true requirements of the plant, are done in a timely manner with as little waste of human and material resources as is possible.

Search Results for planning and scheduling

Doc Palmer Joins People and Processes as a Partner

Strategic Maintenance Planning

Why do we need to do Strategic Maintenance Planning?

Reliability Excellence and the Planner/Scheduler Function

Maintenance Scheduling 101

There Is No Tradeoff Between Empowering And Scheduling

Backlog Management

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

Work Order Prioritization

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

Work Flow Concepts

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

The Journey to Data Driven Decision Making

A Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Supervisor

Work Order Execution and Data Capture

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

Cycle-based Maintenance Made Simple In The Cloud