Friday, March 18, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Planning and Scheduling is Crazy
You would not believe how many organizations have disfunctional or no Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? This is crazy, without an effective planning and scheduling function you cannot expect wrench time to be above 20%, rework is high and MTBF is low.
How does your organization plan and schedule maintenance work?
We want planning and scheduling to be focused on the early identification of Potential Failures, Lubrication, time based overhauls (we need to talk about this subject another day).
If you want to know if you have a proactive planner, call them on the phone and tell them you need a part right now for a breakdown and if you get the dial tone you have a proactive planner because you must have dialed the wrong number. NEVER drag a maintenance planner into the reactivity of an organization. Allow them to be proactive even if no one else is, trust me.
How does your organization plan and schedule maintenance work?
We want planning and scheduling to be focused on the early identification of Potential Failures, Lubrication, time based overhauls (we need to talk about this subject another day).
If you want to know if you have a proactive planner, call them on the phone and tell them you need a part right now for a breakdown and if you get the dial tone you have a proactive planner because you must have dialed the wrong number. NEVER drag a maintenance planner into the reactivity of an organization. Allow them to be proactive even if no one else is, trust me.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
What is wrong with your PM Program?
I know this may shock many of you but most companies PM programs are not tied to specific Failure Modes, even their Lubrication Programs are not. I know most of you find this shocking but how does this happen when we know Preventive Maintenance is to Prevent Failure or Identify a Potential Failure.
Failure Modes is what we are looking to prevent or identify early enough so we can plan and schedule the work. The only change to this are PMs tied to regulatory requirements.
I use this analogy "if you are performing PM on equipment that continues to fail you have a problem" (unless your maintenance strategy is Run to Failure).
Have you noticed this to be an issue?
Failure Modes is what we are looking to prevent or identify early enough so we can plan and schedule the work. The only change to this are PMs tied to regulatory requirements.
I use this analogy "if you are performing PM on equipment that continues to fail you have a problem" (unless your maintenance strategy is Run to Failure).
Have you noticed this to be an issue?
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