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Work Execution Management

Do you Measure the Effectiveness of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling?

While many organizations have maintenance planning and scheduling individuals or groups, few measure the effectiveness of the function. Why is it that we want to measure anyway?

Improvement is one

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Work Execution Management

Work Priorities

Do you have a good process in place for prioritizing work orders? Do you know how to even start the process? IDCON suggests starting with the basics:

  • Establish clear priority rules
  • Follow the

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Work Execution Management

Equipment / Component Detail Cleaning

Companies tend to minimize the impact of basic cleanliness on equipment / components. Maintenance usually emphasize in condition monitoring programs such as vibration, temperature (motors, ...

Identification and Characterization of Work Shift Maintenance Time in Titanium Dioxide Plant

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.

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Work Execution Management

Definition: Planned Work

Work that has gone through a formal planning process to identify labor, materials, tools, and safety requirements. This information is assembled into a job plan package and communicated to craft

Work Execution Management

How to Use Practical Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) During Corrective Maintenance

In this plant example the mechanics are scheduled to do Corrective Maintenance based on the Planned work orders that day. The work order states: Replace bearings on a press roll due to highHere ...

Middleware

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.

Learn About a Heroic Journey to Organizational Change in New Audio book

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.

How SAP Tools Can Improve Your Scheduling Process and Deliver Efficiency Results
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How SAP Tools Can Improve Your Scheduling Process and Deliver Efficiency Results

A presentation by Gus McIntosh, Vesta Partners. Originally recorded at the 2012 Reliability Forum for SAP Users

An effective Scheduling Process is a major element of any maintenance strategy and continuous improvement program yet many organizations still struggle to put together the correct mix of business process, communication and software tools that will drive efficiency and deliver performance improvements.

Announcing Primavera P6 Seminars from New Standard Institute

Milford, CT – January 7, 2013 - Primavera P6 is rapidly becoming the premier software program used in industry during Shutdowns, Turnaround, and Outage projects. Accordingly, Planners and Schedulers are seeking ways to improve their use of this tool, specific to their particular industries. New Standard Institute consultant Andrew C. Levitt, PMP in December 2012 as part of New Standard’s Orlando, Florida seminar week, and will now present the session in two locations this coming Spring:

RIME for Work Prioritization: Median Time to Complete Work Orders
work execution management

Work Prioritization: Emotion vs. Logic

by George Mahoney

A Supervisor's Typical Morning

Its 7 a.m. and Rich's head is already spinning. He hasn't even finished his first cup of coffee and already three different customers have screamed at him. While the customers are from three completely different business areas, they have two things in common:

They each have an "emergency" that needs to be taken care of right now.

They each refer to themselves as THE most important person on site.

Effective Maintenance Planning
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DOs & DON’Ts of Effective Maintenance Planning

Most asset-intensive organizations recognize that efficient and effective maintenance planning and scheduling is one of those cornerstone processes that can help ensure equipment reliability and assist with attaining excellence in operations.

Managing Materials Used During PMs
Work Execution Management

Managing Materials Used During PMs

An hour long presentation by Clark Kimmel, Senior Consultant, People and Processes, Inc.

Materials management is a critical part of an organizations ability to maintain and sustain reliability. Too many unnecessary or seldom used parts and materials on a shelf can waste resources. Resources are utilized to handle, house, maintain and kit or issue parts. Often times these resources are consumed on parts that haven't moved in years.

A Strong Shop Floor: Successful Planning & Scheduling Secret Ingredient
Work Execution Management

A Strong Shop Floor: Successful Planning & Scheduling Secret Ingredient

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.

“Wrench Time” - Why the “FEAR” to Measure Maintenance Productivity?

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.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Selects Quintiq’s Workforce Planner

RADNOR, Pa., (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX)—Quintiq solution chosen for maintenance workforce optimization.

Quintiq announced today that ArcelorMittal Dofasco, a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, has selected Quintiq to provide a maintenance planning and scheduling solution for its Hamilton, Ontario steelmaking operations.

Planning and Scheduling: 2 Questions for Management to Ask

By R.D. (Doc) Palmer

How did we do on the weekly schedule? What is the biggest issue we had where I can help? These two simple questions form the majority of the maintenance manager's direction and control of maintenance efficiency and effectiveness.

Measuring the Central Hub – Planning and Scheduling Metrics
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Measuring the Central Hub – Planning and Scheduling Metrics

An hour long presentation by Jeff Shiver CMRP, CPMM - Managing Principal

We constantly hear about metrics like OEE, PM Compliance, and Schedule Compliance that help measure productivity, availability, and the maintenance work management process as examples. In the end, these metrics are used to drive behaviors within the organization. I'm reminded of a statement that a Plant Manager in a large food and beverage manufacturer once told me. He said, "Jeff, We measure what we treasure!" If so, what is it in the Maintenance organization that we treasure?

Learn How to Build and Leverage Maintenance Job Plans
Work Execution Management

Learn How to Build and Leverage Maintenance Job Plans

An hour long presentation by Jeff Shiver CMRP, CPMM - Managing Principal, People and Processes, Inc.

You read articles that mention them and you hear people talk about them. But when it comes to the Maintenance Job Plan, what is the intent really? And how do I use it to make my job as a Planner better? How does it help the craftspeople?

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