What is Maintenance Planning & Scheduling?

This episode of the weekly podcast covers all the aspects of maintenance planning and scheduling.

Planning is one of the most time-consuming yet important activity if an organization needs anything done efficiently and effectively.

Any strategy or procedure needs planning and scheduling if it were to be implemented successfully.

A well-planned maintenance strategy not only ensures a good outcome but saves a lot of money and time.

Every industry uses this approach when delivering ahead of the deadlines can result in catastrophic results.

Now, this is one of the initial stages and any organization needs human and physical resources to accomplish these planned goals.

Planning definitely takes time but in the long run, you can manage to do more work in the given time which is the manifestation of the Parkinson’s Law.

It also helps in solving problems and avoid failures, because you can find out that what went wrong and how are you going to fix it as it is a step by step process.
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The 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations

This episode of the weekly podcast covers the 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations.

The original equipment manufacturers provide a manual in which all the general instructions are provided in the form of an operating manual.

These can be helpful when someone is using the equipment for the first time but when the same apparatus has to be used in reputed organizations with a set-up of their own, this manual is not enough.

It is developed keeping in mind the general behavior of instruments and common environmental condition of workshops and laboratories.

Most of the times, manufacturers put together these recommendations considering the worst that can go wrong to cover their warranty policies.

That is why the organizations cannot rely only on this operating manual.
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Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance

Review RCM is a streamlined approach to improving plant performance.

It allows organizations to quickly address ineffective PM programs.  How does it achieve this?

By using the operating environment, failure patterns, and P-F interval, we can answer three basic questions:

1. Will replacement of part on a known interval or usage reduce the probability of failure?
2. Can we see it in the process of failure with sufficient time to respond?
3. Is the impact of the failure high enough to warrant the cost of a PM strategy?

These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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