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The 5 Levels of Maintenance Scheduling

Making Maintenance Scheduling Simple

16. Maintenance Scheduling

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 […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 29th, 2015|Long Range Work Scheduling, Work Identification & Prioritization, Work Management, Work Scheduling|4 Comments
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The Black Hole of Maintenance: The Backlog

Where Maintenance Requests Go, But Never Appear to Escape From; The Backlog.

15. The Blackhole of Maintenance - June 22, 2015 Steve Jurvetson

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 […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 22nd, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning, Work Scheduling|Comments Off on The Black Hole of Maintenance: The Backlog
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What is Maintenance Planning?

Markus Spiske Markus Spiske

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 enable 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.

Working with various operations, I have often seen the line between planning & scheduling blurred. What separates the successful operations is knowing the […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 15th, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off on What is Maintenance Planning?
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Planning for Profitability

How Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Can Improve Your Profitability

13. Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Seattle Municipal Archives

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 […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00June 8th, 2015|Work Identification & Prioritization, Work Management, Work Planning, Work Scheduling|Comments Off on Planning for Profitability
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Be a Leader

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

Leaders - Wesley Fryer Wesley Fryer

Building on the Dale Carnegie® Principles from the famous book, How to Win friends and Influence People, we can progress to the final set of principles.

Using his key principles as a guide, we can bring about change within our organization. In the first post, we covered how to build authentic and meaningful relationships. In the second post we covered how to win people to your way of thinking. In this last post, […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00June 1st, 2015|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off on Be a Leader
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