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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

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 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

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 […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00June 8th, 2015|Work Identification & Prioritization, Work Management, Work Planning, Work Scheduling|Comments Off