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Article tagged Maintenance planning

The process of identifying what work needs to be done with what specific materials, tools, equipment, and documentation. The process also addresses why a specific maintenance approach is taken, while detailing how to accomplish the work. It provides critical information in anticipation of upcoming maintenance activities for scheduling.

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Maintenance Planner Performance-Based Job Description 

Maintenance Planner Performance-Based Job Description 

 This job description begins detailing the attributes, skills and knowledge required for a person to competently do the duties of a maintenance planner focused on improving equipment reliability. It uses an outcomes approach to set the standards that must be reached in the performance of the work. It leaves the person doing the job the flexibility and initiative to find their own way to reach those standards.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning

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The Basics of Planned and Deferred Maintenance

The Basics of Planned and Deferred Maintenance

We can plan to do more than we are capable of accomplishing. The remaining items, if they warranty accomplishing become deferred. They roll over to the next’s day’s list of actions to take.

Of course, in practice, the process to plan, execute, and defer maintenance activities is a bit more complex than described above. The ability to maintain equipment in working order along with minimizing downtime and costs is in large part the balance between resources available to conduct maintenance and the increased risk of system failure due to deferred maintenance. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CRE Preparation Notes, Maintainability and Availability Tagged With: Maintenance planning

by James Kovacevic 1 Comment

Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Quantify Your Improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Being able to communicate the improvements with Maintenance Planning & Scheduling with finance and senior leaders can be difficult.   The maintenance team sees a high PM Compliance, or more work being complete, but what does that mean for the business in tangible benefits? This is where the communication between maintenance and finance breakdown.   By being able to identify and link the maintenance improvements to financial returns, maintenance will be able to generate support for current and future projects. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning, Maintenance scheduling

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The Top 5 Tips to Implementing a Successful Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Process

The Top 5 Tips to Implementing a Successful Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Process

Implementing a Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process can be trying, difficult and downright frustrating. How would you like to dramatically reduce the stress involved and see results quicker? By utilizing these 5 tips, you will be able to build a robust, highly efficient and effective process with reduced effort. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning, Maintenance scheduling

by James Kovacevic 1 Comment

The Black Hole of Maintenance

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Photo by Steve Jurvetson

Where Maintenance Requests Go But Never Appear to Escape From- the Backlog.

This is exactly what some operations staff think of when we tell them to submit a work request.

It means that they do not think that the work will be completed, or it will after it no longer matters to them.

What if you called the cable company and reported an issue? You would expect prompt service, and would expect that you would not have to chase them down to do the work correct? Maintenance is a service organization that enables the successful operation of the business.

The business shouldn’t have to chase us down or wonder if we will repair the equipment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning

by James Kovacevic 4 Comments

What is Maintenance Planning?

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Photo by Markus Spike

Understanding what is included in maintenance planning will enable your program to be successful.

Maintenance planning = doing things right. Identifying and addressing any possible issues ahead of time enables our craft to complete work quickly and correctly.

Maintenance planning identifies the what, why and the how. These three items allow the planner to identify most potential issues and provide the information, and materials to avoid them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning

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Planning for Profitability

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Photo from Seattle Municipal Archives

How Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Can Improve Your Profitability

What if you could improve your maintenance department to the point where you increase the efficiency and the amount of work completed of your department by 80%? Would this be something that interests you?

A properly setup and managed Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Program can enable that type of success and enable your operation to plan for profitability.

This type of increase in efficiency may seem farfetched, but it can be achieved. The typical maintenance department operates between an efficiency of 30-35%, with best in class departments operating at 55% or better. What separates these operations? Planning & Scheduling! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning, Maintenance scheduling

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The Top 10 Signs That You Have a World Class Reliability & Maintenance Program (Part 1)

The Top 10 Signs That You Have a World Class Reliability & Maintenance Program (Part 1)

During a recent business trip, I had the opportunity to attend a sister plant in another part of the world. I had been told how good the plant was in Planning & Scheduling. When I attended the weekly planning meeting, I was shocked.   It was chaos and confusion, with the planner writing notifications to be put on next week’s schedule, which started the next day. They thought this was good practice.

Often, we don’t know, what we don’t know. This leads the belief that an operation is not world class when it is and vice versa. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Maintenance planning, Maintenance scheduling, Maintenance storeroom management

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Maintenance Planning– Make your Planner successful!

Maintenance Planning– Make your Planner successful!

The efficient use of men, materials and external resources requires coordination and preparation.

When a job starts everything needed to do the job must be at hand and must be right to use. The maintenance planner does the preparation required prior to the start of a job.

The planner’s focus is to prepare everything needed to execute a job through to its successful completion and have it ready and on-hand before the job starts.

How well the planning job is done directly affects how efficiently the men do the work and how long it takes for it to be done.

Keywords: job scheduling, breakdown work. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance Tagged With: Maintenance planning

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