Check out an exclusive sneak peek at our Work Management Planning and Scheduling virtual training provided by IDCON’s Senior Consultant Michael Lippig. Michael deftly explains
Are you finding it difficult to manage your maintenance and reliability resources? Do you feel like you cannot catch up on the work order backlog?
In this video, Christer Idhammar answers the question for. Someone is always planning a job whether you have the role of planner or not. But
How do you plan your family vacation? In most cases you have to check when you can take off from work, decide where to go,
We have all experienced duplicate work orders in our work order system. The problem is generally rooted in the way the current system is designed
When all work requests are high priority (1 or 2) the result is a reactive work environment. This is a common occurrence for organizations that
I am asked all the time, “How many maintenance planners and supervisors do we need? It’s a great question, I”m going to use the analogy
Putting together Work Order Job Kits is more than just gathering the parts needed for a planned job. The Kitting of parts and materials is
Part of your work management after a plant shutdown is to do a team evaluation so you can improve your plant shutdown turnaround maintenance process.
Like everyone else, I get too many emails to read so my daily routine each morning is to do a quick glance at all my
I interviewed a mine operations manager in Newcastle, Australia, who said, “I have no idea what work orders or reliability improvements have been finished in
One of the exercises in IDCON’s Work Management Planning and Scheduling Training is to assign the right priority for jobs. Setting priorities for work requests
Most maintenance departments profess to be convinced of the need for maintenance planning and scheduling and condition based maintenance. However, the benefit of using them
As an industry, we are facing vastly different circumstances than we ever have before. New low-cost producers and an ever-shrinking world market have left the
Setting Disciplined Priorities – A Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Perspective Priority, as defined in the Franklin Dictionary, means “coming before in time, order, or importance.”
Potlatch Cloquet’s low-cost maintenance shutdown management techniques focusing on type, quality, and timing of work contribute to an 83% drop in maintenance cost per ton.
Picture this. Personnel from a plant are driving along a road in an automobile. The maintenance manager is driving blindfolded. Sitting beside the maintenance manager
The chart below is from our Poll “Why do planners not plan?” Respondents overwhelmingly agreed on the three top reasons 1. Too Many “Do it Now Jobs”
Many organizations spend too much time searching for—and starting implementation of—new reliability and maintenance concepts, and very little time on implementation and improvements of what
Planning is here defined as defined as the work done to decide: What work to do, How it will be done and How long time
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