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
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 always be improved at any mill or plant. The fact is that 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
Break-in jobs is a term used for identifying maintenance jobs that are added to a schedule without proper lead time allowed for planning and scheduling.
Break-in Jobs are often incorrectly identified as a synonym to break downs, or true emergency work. In our experience, break-in jobs are often NOT true emergencies, instead they are often EMOTIONAL emergencies.
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