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Scheduling Mayhem, Mishaps and Misunderstandings

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 38:01
by Shayne Jones, Salt River Project

What is the value of scheduling work? Why should we be required to think ahead and try to slot work when we really don’t know what will be going on that day? What is the value of assigning craft resources? Shouldn’t supervision just be able to grab whoever isn’t busy and give them the most pressing work order at the moment? Why do we need to know if we have parts available? How much time do maintenance organizations lose each year because they assign people to do work for which there are no parts available? Oh yeah, equipment clearances, you want me to notify our operations partners ahead of time for clearances so they can hang them when they have time available and we are not standing around waiting for them. That time waiting for equipment clearances is what we use to get our tools to the job, find a partner to help us, make sure we have other crafts to support us and catch up on what happened at the game last night. There is a multitude of good reasons to schedule work. Do we all really know the reasons? Do the people we are asking to schedule and execute the work understand the benefits? One of the shortfalls with the work schedule is not nearly enough communication. Scheduling work is one of the greatest time savers available to an organization if it is done right. Doing it right requires a commitment, a belief that it is the right thing to do to help the organization improve. The biggest challenge is communicating that benefit and sharing the rewards of a good scheduling program. Scheduling cannot be done successfully without good metrics. A good dashboard of performance is one of the best communication tools available. It should not be a hammer, rather a learning tool.

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Innovative ROI Calculator Released to Reveal the Impact of Optimized Enterprise Maintenance Planning

This exclusive, new ROI Calculator from SOLUFY Information Technologies Inc., contains features designed to assist enterprise maintenance professionals including planners and schedulers.

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WiLAN Acquires VIZIYA Corporation

OTTAWA and HAMILTON, ON, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - Wi-LAN Inc. ("WiLAN" or the "Company") (WIN.TO) (WILN) and VIZIYA Corporation and its related entities ("VIZIYA") today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for WiLAN to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of VIZIYA.

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A Glimpse at the Future

Editor’s note: From 1996 to 2000, the author had the privilege of doing a greenfield construction and start-up of a chemical plant in Asia. Part of the land was still being reclaimed from the ocean when he arrived. This article describes how he and the work team developed work processes to do things in the way they had always wanted to do them.

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Bigfoot maintenance software, produced by Smartware Group, is a powerful, yet easy-to-use solution that is quick to learn to give you quick results.

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Secrets of Success with Procedures

The RELIABILITY Conference 2016 - RAP Talk - 19:38
by Jack Nicholas, Author

In this informative RAP Talk, Jack Nicholas stresses often overlooked processes and procedures that address management. In particular, the relationship between policies, processes, plans, procedures and work instructions are illustrated. In addition, how situations where procedures aren’t followed and lead to problems should be handled. Case studies and other sources are presented to emphasize important lessons that were learned, sometimes in very difficult and important ways.

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The Lost Art of Scheduling

Asset Management System (AMS) Implementation

AMS implementations are usually quite involved. Software is installed and configured, processes are documented and improved, and roles and responsibilities are clarified. The project team will identify as-is and to-be processes. More importantly, the project manager must facilitate these workshops, coordinate resources and communicate change. With so much at stake, why aren't AMS project managers making full use of the project management tools, such as scheduling software?

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Preventing Birthdays in Backlog Management

Maintenance is about mitigating the consequences of failure (the risks). Managing the Maintenance Backlog is no different, it too is about managing risk. Instead of looking at backlog only in

Tip Provided by: Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, CRL, RCM2 Practitioner Managing Principal

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The Right Resources: Start Designing a Planning & Scheduling Program

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.

Cost of Change, and Why Planning Matters

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.

planning and scheduling

Scheduling Mayhem, Mishaps and Misunderstandings

Argo Consulting

Innovative ROI Calculator Released to Reveal the Impact of Optimized Enterprise Maintenance Planning

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