Planning and Scheduling
Planning: Making work execution efficient (what and how)
Scheduling: Reducing the time between jobs (when)
Good maintenance plans shorten job times, and make your trades workforce more productive.
What are your planners really doing?
Are your planners planning? Or, are they only scheduling?
Do you have the parts you need?
Are you hearing complaints about lack of parts? If parts and materials are not ready for the job to start, or your trades need to spend a lot of time getting them, then you have problems. If your planners are chasing parts, they are not planning.
Reliance on direct purchases instead of your parts stores creates a lot of work for purchasing and your planners, and it undermines your stores.
Parts stashed away in the shop, office or plant means that there is a lot of savings potential.
Do you get work done when you say you will?
When you schedule work for next week, will it get done in that week? If you keep rescheduling the start of maintenance jobs your work management process isn’t working as it should.
Do you save and re-use your plans?
Do you have a library (database) of saved job plans that can re-used? Saving and re-using plans frees up planners to plan more effectively and increases the amount of planned work achieved. Planned work is 1/3 or less the cost of unplanned work.
Training?
Have your planners been training in planning, or just in how to use your computerized management system? A lack of training and process understanding is at the heart of many problems in planning, scheduling and spares.
Training Available for Planners and Schedulers:
- Create job plans in minutes, not hours
- Plan work for all trades – unlimited by your own technical background
- Increase your job plan library
- Increase the percentage of work planned very quickly
- Helps you focus on the important details
EAM and CMMS Value Extraction
Are your maintenance management systems really delivering what you need?
Are distracted by data and starved for information?
Is your Asset Management Ecosystem working for you, or are you working for it?
Are you achieving the results you want from your investments in tech?
Technology provides us with useful tools. But they are not solutions. Too much reliance on technology leaves us vulnerable – it allows us to get lazy, can weaken our knowledge, and lowers our resilience.
Put “thought-ware” ahead of software!
Here are some areas where we can help with that:
- Digitization,
- Evidence-based decision making,
- Leveraging big data,
- Optimizing spares levels and working capital tied up in inventory,
- Inventory optimization,
- Optimum replacement age of assets,
- Repair or replace decisions,
- Capital investment planning,
- Leveraging the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies,
- Reliability analysis,
- Maintenance management.
