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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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-23T23:39:33-05:00July 13th, 2015|Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage, Work Management|2 Comments

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? […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00July 6th, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 29th, 2015|Long Range Work Scheduling, Work Identification & Prioritization, Work Management, Work Scheduling|4 Comments

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 22nd, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning, Work Scheduling|Comments Off

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:20-05:00June 15th, 2015|Work Management, Work Planning|Comments Off