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. Read the following scenarios and
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
A Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Perspective Priority, as defined in the Franklin Dictionary, means “coming before in time, order, or importance.” When prioritizing maintenance work,
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
All over the world, most mills and manufacturers have morning meetings. As a consultant, I have been asked to sit in on many of these
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. Even the most experienced planner can lose focus because of other priorities Having a checklist for the
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