planning and scheduling

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.

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.

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%.

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.

By Brad McCully, ATS

Why do we need to do Strategic Maintenance Planning?

In today's global competitive environment every manufacturer feels cost and price pressure. Performance improvement is required and it must happen immediately. As companies implement Lean manufacturing, the challenge is that the assets must perform well and maintenance must accomplish this on a limited budget.

Introduction

Planning and scheduling tasks tend to be based upon fixed times in both the internal and contracted maintenance arena. This can lead to inefficient or ineffective use of resources and the decline of the maintenance department towards reactive maintenance, further reducing the efficiency of the program. There are a number of ways to not only ensure proper completion of maintenance tasks, both scheduled and reactive, but also to improve wrench time.