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Top 10 Reasons Your Planning & Scheduling Program Is Failing

How to see if your Planning & Scheduling program is failing to return value to the organization

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is one of the most important processes in the maintenance function. Without it, work will not be completed on time, nor will it be efficient. So why, is the maintenance planning & scheduling process often ignored, or not implemented successfully?

I feel that it is not implemented successfully for a few reasons. The first is the assumption that everyone can plan and you can rely exclusively on the skill of the trade […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:52-04:00January 23rd, 2017|Work Management|Comments Off

Unlock the Efficiency of Your Planner with a Single Step: BOMs

How Bill of Materials (BOMs) Can Exponentially Increase the Efficiency of Your Maintenance Planner

Imagine a world where the Maintenance Planner can quickly and easier find all the material information for each job. Even those that do not yet have a job plan. Dreams or reality? Reality. This reality is found within operations all over the world and you can have it too. How can you achieve a level of efficiency with your Planner and have all materials information readily available? With Bills of Material.

A Bill of Material or […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:05:26-05:00October 12th, 2015|Spare Parts Management, Uncategorized, Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off

5 Reasons Why You Need to Be Using Procedure Based Maintenance

Using Procedure Based Maintenance to Improve the Performance of Your Operation

Imagine an operation in which there are no lost time accidents, OEE is increasing and there is a plan to address the skills shortage. These sites do exist and chances are they using procedure based maintenance. Procedure Based Maintenance is simply having all maintenance activities documented in a procedure. The procedures are followed step by step when conducting breakdown, corrective and preventative maintenance.

Benefits of Procedure Based Maintenance

Procedure Based Maintenance reduces the variation that occurs […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T04:54:10-05:00October 5th, 2015|Advanced Work Planning, Knowledge Management, Standard Work, Work Management|Comments Off

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T00:13:29-05:00July 27th, 2015|Work Management|Comments Off

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-23T23:52:53-05:00July 20th, 2015|Work Management|2 Comments