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Articles tagged Maintenance scheduling
The process of determining when to accomplish specific maintenance tasks, giving detailed information on who will perform what maintenance and when.
5 Ways To Reduce Your Overall Maintenance Workload
Maintenance of different equipment within a facility remains a core enabler of improved productivity and efficiency of plant processes. Poor maintenance practices lead to machine downtime, increased operational costs, and increased maintenance workloads.
Reducing maintenance workload can’t be done overnight, but it is a goal worth pursuing. Less maintenance work performed (without an increase in reactive maintenance work) means less resources spent – fewer spare parts used, less overtime work, and improved employee satisfaction that can actually increase the average quality of performed maintenance work.
Guide to Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
The cornerstones of effective maintenance management are maintenance planning and scheduling, which ensure that maintenance technicians are at the right place at the right time with the right tools. Effective maintenance planning and scheduling involve prioritizing and organizing work so that it is completed in the most efficient manner possible. The advantages of proper maintenance planning and scheduling include the following:
- More efficient use of labor hours
- Reduced equipment downtime
- Lower spare parts holdings
- Faster execution of jobs
- Cost savings
- Improved workflow
- Reduced injuries and stress
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…]
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…]
The 5 Levels of Maintenance Scheduling
Making Maintenance Scheduling Simple
Coordinating all of the maintenance activities within a site can be overwhelming. A schedule is supposed to help reduce the sense of being overwhelmed. But why is it that when trying to pull together a schedule for the next shift, day or week, it always seems to be a mad dash?
Often times the maintenance scheduling process is not well defined or thought out, and this leads to being overwhelmed. It also projects an image to our operational partners that we do not have our house in order. This image may or may not play a role in having our Maintenance windows moved or cancelled, further our scheduling issues. [Read more…]
Planning for Profitability
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…]
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…]