Organizations should have a clear work description of what a maintenance planner’s role is. The role may vary between organizations, mainly due to plant size.
Improving equipment reliability often comes down to improving basic work systems such as planning and maintenance scheduling, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, technical database, and
The answer is that maintenance planners usually do very little maintenance planning and scheduling. A maintenance manager for a large steel mill contacted IDCON a
It’s not fun, it’s borderline boring…it’s the checklist.
About 25% of a Planner’s time should be spent in the field, assessing and “scoping” maintenance work. To make this time as useful as possible,
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
This article provides guidelines on the selection and structure of the codes and categories that CMMS Software work order systems use to filter and sort
What are work order priorities? If we ask any given plant with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), if they have a well defined priority
Did you know the difference between planning and scheduling? In fact, many organizations think that the two are the same. Other organizations know the difference,
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