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Leading & Lagging KPIs, What Is The Difference?
Using Leading & Lagging KPIs Can Make The Difference In Driving Performance, By Allowing You To See Into The Future.
This is the second part of a mini series on Key Performance Indicators. If you haven’t already please read the first post of this series on KPIs.
KPIs are often used to measure the past performance of a process, but did you know that they can be used to see into the future and predict the performance of the organization?
KPIs can be used to measure past performance, or predict future […]
What Is A Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?
Identifying the Right KPI for Your Business is Critical to Managing the Performance of the Business (Part 1)
“What gets measured, gets done” and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are critical to measuring the performance of the organization and business. So what specifically is a KPI? According to the Professionals Guide to Maintenance & Reliability Terminology, a KPI is a vital indicator which is used to evaluate process performance. KPIs are used to represents a measure (or set of metrics) focusing on those aspects of organizational performance that are the most critical for […]
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.
I remember trying to communicate with a finance person on how a CMMS […]
The Top 5 Tips to Implementing a Successful Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Process
Use these tips to overcome barriers and create 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.
These 5 tips are time tested, and have been used to […]
See How Easily You Can Plan a Successful Shutdown
Using the Critical Path to Guarantee a Successful Shutdown
Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage are all the same thing. An extended planned downtime event, in which a tremendous amount of resources are utilized to ensure the site will be able to achieve its business goals. Whether the shutdown involves overhauls, CAPEX or a combination, the successful completion of the shutdown depends heavily on the planning and execution of it.
Shutdowns are resource intensive and often under compressed timelines. This unique situation requires a different approach to […]
What Everybody Ought to Know About Work Order Closeout
How Capturing the Right Information Will Improve Your Job Plans, Increase Reliability and Improve Your Profitability.
One of the most important, but often the least effective parts of the Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process, is the work order close out step. Here critical data is supposed to be captured and used to improve the job plan, identify future work and improve reliability. All of these add up to improve the profitability of the organization.
So why do so many organization fail to capture the data required? […]
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 […]
The Black Hole of Maintenance: The Backlog
Where Maintenance Requests Go, But Never Appear to Escape From; The Backlog.
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 […]
What is Maintenance Planning?
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 […]
Planning for Profitability
How Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Can Improve Your Profitability
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 […]