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Maintenance planning and scheduling handbook /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmer, Doc
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2012.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Product life cycle.
Production management.
Electronic books.
Internet resources.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: a day in the life, May 10, 2020
  • The business case for the benefit of planning (why do planning?)
  • Planning principles (what makes planning so frustrating and what makes it work?)
  • Scheduling principles (why do we have to do scheduling and what makes it work?)
  • Success only after dealing with reactive maintenance (what if something breaks?)
  • Basic planning (let's plan a work order)
  • Advance scheduling (let's create a schedule)
  • Daily scheduling and supervision (what should the supervisor be doing?)
  • Forms and resources overview (tools that planners use)
  • The computer in maintenance (how a computer can help and hinder planning)
  • How planning interacts with preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and project work
  • Control (how do we control planning itself and what are associated KPIs for planning and overall maintenance?)
  • Shutdown, turnaround, overhaul, and outage management
  • Conclusion: start planning
  • Epilogue: an alternative day in the life, May 10, 2020
  • Planning is just one tool; what are the other tools needed?
  • The people side of planning
  • What to buy and where
  • Sample forms and work orders
  • Overview of duties for planners and others
  • DIY (do it yourself) wrench time study, quick and easy in-house
  • Sample work sampling (wrench time) study: "ministudy"
  • Sample work sampling (wrench time) study: full-blown study
  • Special factors affecting productivity
  • Work order system and codes
  • Equipment schematics and tagging
  • Computerized maintenance management systems and scheduling with excel spreadsheets
  • Establishing and supporting a planning group (barriers and aids to success)
  • Example formal job description for planners
  • Example training tests
  • Questions for managers to ask to improve maintenance planning
  • Contracting out work
  • Concise text of missions, principles, and guidelines.