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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.

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Work Flow Concepts

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By: Daryl Mather, Maintenance Consultant

As economic demands have increased and technology for maintenance has moved forward there has been an increasing demand on the time of the maintenance-planning department.

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.

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.

The Journey to Data Driven Decision Making
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

Create a Weekly Maintenance Schedule
Work Execution Management

Create a Weekly Maintenance Schedule

The weekly maintenance schedule may be the hardest schedule type to create. Aside from the software, the greatest challenge may be the data inside the CMMS as to accuracy and completeness.

Calculate Your Reliability and Maintenance Backlog
Work Execution Management

Calculate Your Reliability and Maintenance Backlog

How do you develop the backlog management process? Participants will be guided on how to set up the overall work management process, how to measure and calculate the backlog vs. resources available.

Using Calculated Work Order Importance to Manage Threats to Scheduled Work
Work Execution Management

Using Calculated Work Order Importance to Manage Threats to Scheduled Work

You will never, and shouldn’t ever, completely remove the human touch from the prioritization of planning, scheduling, assigning, and executing of work. You should have accurate and useful information in front of you when you are trying to make those critical decisions. This presentation will address our efforts to provide meaningful data to maintenance and reliability personnel by using calculated work order importance to guide work management.

Apply Knowledge Work Logic to Maintenance Planning
Work Execution Management

Apply Knowledge Work Logic to Maintenance Planning

The term “Knowledge Worker” (someone who adds value to their work by managing information) is the pinnacle description of your planner. A planner takes knowledge and information, creates a work package for your mechanic and technicians, and that work package is at ‘higher value’ because of the information and details added by the planner.

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