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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 ...

Five Steps to Adding Value to Your CMMS/EAM

Take back your process. Don't let the ERP/EAM/CMMS consultants tell you how to run your business. Drive more value out of your existing EAM/ERP/CMMS systems by concentrating on the following

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Single Point Of Entry Maintenance Schedule

A reduction of reactive maintenance is achieved through the implementation of a single point of entry for the Scheduler/Supervisor, which gives control of the work execution back to the

 

Should Maintenance Planning and Scheduling be Treated Separately?

Yes to both questions!

* Planning prevents delays by indentifying the needs of the job

* Planning enables Scheduling, by quantifying the resource needs in order for a block of time to be set aside to do the job

* Scheduling enables effectiveness by maximizing resource utilization in both Maintenance and Production

* Scheduling alone can improve effectiveness with only an estimate of labor needs by reducing the downtime between maintenance jobs, eliminating false starts when Production can't free up the equipment, and by reducing the downtime when Maintenance has to wait while Production shuts down and prepares equipment

* Together Planning and Scheduling are more effective on certain jobs

* Not all jobs are candidates for Planning or Scheduling

Tip excerpted from Planning & Scheduling Made Simple by Ricky Smith & Jerry Wilson

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Work Order Failure Hierarchy and Murphy’s Law

No matter how well your Work Order Failure Hierarchy is researched and constructed, Murphy's Law will get you. There will ALWAYS be some problem or cause, and sometimes remedy, that isn't

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Data Backup Tip for Specialized Analysis Work

This is not necessarily an analysis tip. It would be better categorized as a database tip, or a data backup tip for specialized analysis work. When collecting route data the analyst may or may

8 Things Your CMMS Should Do

Allows mechanics to easily write up deficiencies found on PM inspection tours as planned work to be done. System then automatically generates a planned maintenance work order. Automatically

The Principles of Scheduling

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

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.

 

Lean Manufacturing OEE Video (TPM)

Lean Manufacturing OEE Video (TPM)

A brief explanation of how OEE (Overal Equipment Effectiveness) is calculated in TPM.

Maintenance Work Order Planning

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

Maintenance Planning

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.

Implementing PDA Inspection Rounds with Asset Basic Care At Barrick Goldstrike Mine

Implementing PDA Inspection Rounds with Asset Basic Care At Barrick Goldstrike Mine by Wayde Esplin, Senior Reliability Supervisor, Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc., Elko, NV, USA and Steve Reilly, Vice President, Design Maintenance Systems Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Maintenance Inventory and Purchasing

The inventory and purchasing staff have the largest impact on maintenance productivity than any other support group.

An interesting statement; but how does inventory and purchasing affect the maintenance organization?

Establishing an Effective Maintenance Program

When establishing an effective maintenance program, one must determine not only which Preventive Maintenance (PM) routines to accomplish, but how often should they be done. The answer to this

 

You Have to Build a Partnership with Operations

One of the easiest traps to fall into is to create an adversarial relationship with the Operations organization. After all, if they wouldn't break it, you wouldn't have to fix it, right? Bet if

 

 Preventive Maintenance (PM) or Corrective Maintenance (CM)?

Preventive Maintenance (PM) or Corrective Maintenance (CM)?

Experience has clearly shown that some confusion does exist over just what people mean when they use the term preventive maintenance. One significant factor stems from the evidence that a vast

 

Scheduling Will Enhance Your Credibility With Operations

Often, Operations personnel are reluctant to release equipment to Maintenance because they have been "burned" by broken promises in the past. That's understandable; in a reactive environment,

 

Six Tactical Responses to Making Sure Your Improvement Initiative Succeeds

1. Position your improvement initiative as a strategic business initiative that will transform the organization. This approach should integrate all the functional managers as drivers for success.

 

What is Preventive Maintenance?

What is Preventive Maintenance?

We use the following definition of preventive maintenance (PM):

Preventive maintenance is the performance of inspection and/or servicing tasks that have been preplanned (i.e., scheduled) for

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