Test Your Knowledge Of Maintenance Scheduling And Coordination

Mechanics on leave, vacation, meeting, and/or training are not available for work so should not be included in the schedule.

This integrated schedule can be communicated by sub- schedules department, machine, crew, shift, etc. but should incorporate all the activities that will be impacting the production process.

Work identification, prioritization, and approval process must be understood by all shareholders to move away from reactive maintenance.

Maintenance Scheduling procedures need to be understood and supported by the whole organization.

Schedule compliance is a leading indicator to downtime and can be used to continuously improve duration times for job plans and PM.

Greater than 3 days allows the crew leaders to review the work, discuss issues with planner and key shareholders to assure the job will be performed safely and effectively.

Backlog needs to be analyzed on a frequent basis to assure planned work is being performed in a timely fashion and maintenance is not being deferred.

Backlog is based on labors hours of work to perform and labor hours available by the correct sub-organizations: crew, shift, craft, or department

The best priority system is one developed and agreed to by Operation and Maintenance and incorporates work order type and equipment criticality.

Production and Maintenance supervisors are responsible for prioritizing and executing daily activities to assure resources are assigned to the highest priority work. They are also responsible to start the Root Cause Analysis for a schedule breaker by performing Why-Why analysis.