planning and scheduling

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.