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April 2005
Maintenance Planning
The work process we call maintenance planning can almost always be improved
in any given mill or plant. In fact in most plants we visit maintenance
planners don’t plan. Planners do all kinds of tasks except work
order planning. Typical things planners do, and should not do are:
- Act as relief supervisors
- Expedite Materials
- Work on tools
- Plan emergency work
This month’s reliability tip will help your plant to work in the
right direction. Start by drawing up and agreeing to the maintenance planning
work flow. This work must include all involved personnel in order to get
buy in to the process. The planning work process is not a stand alone
process. The planning process is just a piece of our complete planning
and scheduling manual we use to customize to our client’s needs.
But identifying the maintenance planning process is a very good starting
point, your plant can continue the work flow identification in the same
format for scheduling, work order initiation, etc. We have provided an
example from our manual you can use as a starting point for your effort.
VIEW EXAMPLE (PDF
192 KB)
The maintenance planning process is sometime confused with maintenance
scheduling. This phenomenon has previously been discussed in an earlier
reliability tips issue – the
difference between planning & scheduling.
IDCON’s maintenance
planning and scheduling products
IDCON’s Maintenance
planning and scheduling book
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