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Have you set up your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling function for success or failure?
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Have you set up your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling function for success or failure?

An hour long presentation by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, Certified RCM2 Practitioner - Managing Principal, People and Processes, Inc

The Planner: The Heart of the Maintenance Process

By Tarek Atout

Imagine your body without a heart

The planner is proven to be the heart of the planning and scheduling process and one of the arms that supports the whole maintenance process. As in a human being, a strong heart is an indication of good general health; a good planner is an indication of a streamlined planning process. The heart is responsible for blood circulation within the body, while a planner is responsible for smooth workflow within the maintenance body. Have you imagined your body without a heart?

A Day in the Life of a Proactive Maintenance Planner

By Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson

"Without Proactivity in this Process, Chaos Will Dominate"

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.

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Life Cycle Institute Launches New Course: Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

CHARLESTON, SC,—December 9, 2010—The Life Cycle Institute, Life Cycle Engineering’s education group, is now accepting registrations for its latest course: Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages. Joel Levitt, renowned maintenance trainer and author, will facilitate this new offering.

Using Cause & Effect Diagrams for Proactive Effect - Turn It Around with Maintenance Planning

By Jeff Shiver

In Root Cause Analysis, one of the tools frequently utilized is the Cause and Effect Diagram to show how specific actions combine to define a particular result. Typically, the categories of Man, Materials, Methods, and Machine are illustrated in the diagram below. As opposed to using it as a reactive tool after the fact, we can turn it around for purposes such as diagramming effective maintenance planning in a proactive manner. To accomplish this approach, we can provide specific actions in each of the categories above to realize the desired outcome.

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Fleet Maintenance Scheduling Tips

The first items scheduled are the units still in bays. Use substantial effort to solve whatever problem is keeping them from being finished. You can put a unit back on the street unfinished if ...

Work Execution Management

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: Fill-in work

Fill-in work is work that is very simple, can be started, stopped, and re-started with little loss in effectiveness, doesn't involve other crafts and has minimal or no impact to the ...

There’s no ‘I’ in planner: building a team approach to planning & scheduling
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There’s no ‘I’ in planner: building a team approach to planning & scheduling

A one hour recorded webinar on demand by Shon Isenhour, ABB Reliability Services.

Planning & Scheduling can't be as effective when it's a one-person show. Instead, a team-oriented planning and scheduling unit, which includes members from both maintenance and operations, can be used more successfully to improve overall plant reliability. This webinar will teach you how to build a training program that focuses on retention and communication techniques, and certifies key positions within your planning & scheduling organization are being filled by individuals with the highest level of skill.

Participate to learn:

1) Learn how to build a team to improve plant reliability

2) Understand the crucial elements for training retention

3) Realize the importance of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

Work Execution Management

What is the Objective of Planning and Scheduling?

That question seems simple enough, however the answer may be one of the fundamental causes for Planning and Scheduling efforts that fail to deliver their potential.

Normally, the answer to this

Scheduling Options for SAP Plant Maintenance and Beyond
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Scheduling Options for SAP Plant Maintenance and Beyond

Scheduling Options for SAP Plant Maintenance and Beyond
A 10:49 minute iPresentation Tutorial

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The Devil is in the Details!

I recently facilitated a Planning and Scheduling course for a large group of Planners, Supervisors, and Production personnel. Via the work management process, Planners are typically given lots

The Missing Link in Reliability

Many Equipment Failures Could Be Linked To Materials Management


by Art Posey and Phillip Slater

Oh no, not again!  Is this the perennial cry of the maintenance and reliability professional?  We all know this situation: a recent failure was repaired and has now failed again shortly after.

How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents
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How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents

A 7 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, People and Processes, Inc.

Take your planning process and craft efficiencies to the next level by creating reusable Planning Libraries with externally linked documents. This presentation is a how-to to show you the benefits and methods for building these libraries with externally linked documents common to most CMMS/ EAM applications, along with a continuous improvement process to integrate the feedback from craftspeople into those documents.

MetaPower In’l Receives $269K PO for Maintenance Planning Services With a Major Oil Sands Ener

MetaPower International, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MTPR) is pleased to announce that the Company’s subsidiary, MetaPower Canada, Ltd has received a purchase order totaling $269,000 CAD to provide turnaround planning services for a Canadian Energy Company with operations in the Oil Sands Region of Northern Alberta.

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Work Types Tell the Tale

Everyone is sure their maintenance resources are busy. But how are they really utilized? Are they maintenance related activities or non-maintenance activities? Are maintenance resources really ...

A Shortcut to Higher Efficiency

Adding Short Repairs to PM’s

by Joel Levitt

Have you ever thought about building in short repairs to your PM schedule?

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Guiding Principles For Planning And Scheduling “Keeping An Organization Focused”

"Focusing an organization's efforts is the only way to achieve and maintain success"

Guiding Principles are principles an organization must follow in order to be successful in any area where ...

The Principles of Scheduling
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The Principles of Scheduling

An 8 minute iPresentation by Doc Palmer, Partner, People and Processes Inc.

Doc Palmer, author of McGraw Hill's Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook and partner with People and Processes, reviews his six Principles of Scheduling to help you maximize the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling effort in your organization.

The Principles of Planning
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The Principles of Planning

A 17 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Doc Palmer, Partner, People and Processes Inc.


Doc Palmer, author of McGraw Hill's Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook and partner with People and Processes, reviews his six Principles of Planning to help you maximize the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling effort in your organization.

 

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