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Work Execution Management

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?

Work Execution Management

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
Work Execution Management

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.

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The Principles of Planning
Work Execution Management

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.

 

Maintenance Work Order Planning
Work Execution Management

Maintenance Work Order Planning

iPresentation - 13:15
By Verl Davis and Hawkins Cooks

Join Verl Davis and Hawkins Cooks for a brief iPresentation Tutorial on Maintenance Work Order Planning

Doc Palmer Joins People and Processes as a Partner

Jacksonville, Florida - Richard D. Palmer, PE, MBA, better known as Doc Palmer, author of the distinguished Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, joins People and Processes, Inc. as a partner to expand his participation in educating, leading, and consulting with companies on the practical implementation of successful Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (MPS) programs.

Optimized Planning and Scheduling

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Dave Koelzer – VP, Process Improvement, Dimension Technology Solutions, Inc.

For asset-intensive operations, maximizing the use of maintenance dollars is critical. Put simply, planned and scheduled maintenance costs less than unscheduled and reactive maintenance. How much does it cost your organization for unplanned reactive work? How much for emergency work? We’ll explore how a small reduction in unplanned and emergency work can lead to significant cost reductions and improvement in real-world resource availability and productivity.

Maintenance Planning
work execution management

Maintenance Planning: Back to Basics

Planning Departments function in modes anywhere from just being clerks…. to being responsible for all aspects of the maintenance function.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

Fundamentals of Maintenance Planning Series

By Daryl Mather

Planning and scheduling functions are the key deliverables of the planning role. This is where the most gains in execution have the potential to be made and acted upon. In some larger organizations these are split, allowing more adequate resources for each role.

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.

CMMS and EAM

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Coordination

 

Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) In Support of Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination

Excerpted by permission from Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Coordination by Don Nyman and Joel Levitt (Courtesy of Industrial Press)

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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%.

 

Reliability Excellence and the Planner/Scheduler Function

by Life Cycle Engineering

Manufacturing and Facility maintenance organizations everywhere struggle with the challenge of providing operational capacity for their company or organization. Maintenance strives to accomplish this by increasing the reliability of the equipment or process through effective Preventive Maintenance and effective material and labor budget utilization.

Asset Management

Challenges in Asset Management And ways that you can deal with them

by Michael Israel

Disclaimer: In our efforts to make readers aware of technology innovations, this Reliabilityweb.com article make extensive mention of a specfic product.  This should not be taken to imply endorsement.  The product names were used to support the informational delivery of an innovation for the maintenance and reliability community.  - Editor   

Asset Management: An Explanation

What is asset management?

There are varied points of view, no doubt. So let's get a generally acceptable perspective from two reliable sources:

Do Your Planners Have the Training they need to be Effective?

by Alan Warmack, Marshall Institute

Are you considering the implementation of Planning and Scheduling in your Maintenance group? Maybe you have already started the process and chosen the Planners to take you forward in your Continuous Improvement Process. In either case, strong consideration should be given to the types and levels of training your Planners have, or are going to receive in order to make them effective in their new job.

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