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Planned Maintenance
Planning and Scheduling
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Leadership Skills
How to avoid an emergency maintenance culture
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn outlines a step-by-step guide to move from a reactive to planned maintenance culture.
Planning and Scheduling
How to plan and schedule reactive work at your plant
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer argues that even emergency work can benefit from the support of planners and schedulers.
Planning and Scheduling
Proper planning and scheduling requires an adult mindset
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer argues that it can even root out childish behaviors among both work teams and managers.
Planning and Scheduling
Why proactive work dies in the backlog and how to fix it
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer wonders whether your maintenance staff is sized for firefighting or for profitability.
Planning and Scheduling
Build a workflow process that helps you better manage your maintenance team
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says individual work orders are key so managers can help keep things on track, especially emergency work.
Planning and Scheduling
Are standard job plans worth the investment to your maintenance team?
Jeff Shiver
Jeff Shiver says unlock the potential of your historical data by transforming it into a library of reusable job plans.
Planning and Scheduling
Why the most common maintenance planning KPI is hurting your department
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says hyper-accurate labor estimating gets in the way of both completed work and higher quality work.
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Planning and Scheduling
KPIs that count: How and why to measure planned coverage
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says it’s a useful metric but is a lagging indicator that depends on how “planned jobs” are defined and managed.
Planning and Scheduling
Is it okay to break the weekly maintenance schedule?
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says schedule compliance is really a window into opportunities for improvement, and not just a reason to blame the supervisor.
Planned Maintenance
6 ways to improve work order management and data integrity
Lee McClish
Work orders are the source of truth for the maintenance or repair of each asset, and they need to be managed effectively.
Planning and Scheduling
How to take control of maintenance planning and scheduling
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says the keys to controlling planning and scheduling are people-related.
Planning and Scheduling
Make maintenance your competitive advantage to take your company from good to great
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says maintenance is not a necessary evil. It is an investment in production.
Planning and Scheduling
How proper planning and scheduling complement (not replace) craft skills
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says the unusual principles of planning and scheduling can take some culture adjustment, but will quickly increase job execution.
Planning and Scheduling
How to do planning and scheduling with reactive work
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says Reactive maintenance that isn’t an emergency will benefit from a quick plan and a day or weeks head start.
Planning and Scheduling
Improve plant productivity with schedule success
Doc Palmer says maintenance workers will get more work done when loaded with a full schedule and the flexibility to break it.
Planning and Scheduling
Why micromanaging your plant's daily scheduling doesn’t work
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says a daily schedule will focus that day’s work, but supervisors need the flexibility to react to unplanned work.
Planning and Scheduling
Why a filled schedule frightens plant supervisors
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says frontline supervisors are the key to accepting that it's okay to break a fully loaded schedule.
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