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Feature Article:
Scheduling – The Engine that Drives Maintenance Management by Pete Little, PE
 "In my forty-six years of experience with maintenance departments – well over 150 of them in the paper, food, chemical, fertilizer, textile, and other industries – I have made many observations on the conditions I found in these departments. Here are two of them:
Maintenance tends toward chaos.
The typical Maintenance Manager can’t schedule what his people will be doing this afternoon, much less for the next week.
These two problems are closely related, and I strongly believe correcting the second problem will solve the first. This article will address scheduling as the engine that drives maintenance toward world class. First, let’s look at a couple of typical situations.
Maintenance Manager Bill is swamped. He’s in chaos, fighting fires all day, every day. He has no PM program, because he doesn’t have the resources. Likewise, he works most of his crew six to seven days a week, and uses outside contractors extensively. The overtime and contract costs are killing his budget. He has no weekly schedule of backlog work. He knows the productivity of his department is poor, but he cannot dig his way out of the hole he is in. He has a chronic backlog of deferred maintenance.
Plant Engineer Paul is methodical in the midst of chaos. Every Thursday he faithfully meets with his Planner and two Supervisors, and reviews the current week’s schedule. Since the schedule consists of about two weeks work for every technician in the maintenance department, the theoretical best they can do would be to complete about 50% of the schedule. In actuality, the average completion rate averages about 10%.
For the complete article, including Pete’s solution to these problems, please click here.
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