Maintenance Planning and Scheduling - Consulting

Classroom training is usually effective to increase planning and scheduling awareness, however, in order to achieve change in an organization further help is often required by an in-house resource or an external consultant.

Consulting in planning and scheduling is always customized to the client.  But, some of the typical activities are:

• Define or verify work processes
• Make sure planners, supervisors, and operations coordinators have clear roles
• Set clear priority rules and establish meaning and criteria for existing codes.
• Improve work request usage and clarity
• Check backlog management and clean up if needed
• On-the-job planning enhancement for shutdowns (if applicable)
• Shutdown/ TA critique communication
• On-the-job planning enhancement for day-to-day work
• Job package creation
• Staging areas
• Enhance and practice planning and scheduling meetings between operations and maintenance
• Implement Key Performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Work on effective use of CMMS
• Hand-on support for history documentation by hourly maintenance
• Improvement of technical database (BOM, technical data, equipment numbering, etc)
• Improve integration with materials management
• Contractor management and integration of work processes

IDCON believes strongly in making sure the change process has buy-in and ownership in the organization.  It is therefore important that the organization take over ownership as soon as possible and that IDCON acts as a catalyst, trainer, and advisor instead of doing all the work.

Back to planning and scheduling

Read more in our Maintenance Planning and Scheduling book.