planning and scheduling

by Roberto Máscia

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.

By John Reeve

Introduction

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.

José Wagner Braidotti Jr.

The best results of maintenance practices carried out in enterprises critically depend on the efforts of maintenance staff to ensure their day-to-day actions comply with the schedule of services in order to avoid unwanted failures, correctly diagnose the behavior of active production processes, and ensure quality information recorded in the work orders.