If your maintenance crew had one EXTRA hour a day
Plenty of maintenance teams struggle to finish their tasks within the day. “We just don’t have enough time to do everything.” So in an effort to catch up, they work long hours. What’s worse is, that they sacrifice improvement initiatives, self-care, and team building. They lose sight of long-term goals in favor of short-term fixes. […]
How to get more work done faster
Last week, I talked about how different sources of waste are impacting your maintenance performance and your plant’s reliability. This week, let’s get into more detail on how waste is reducing the efficiency of your day-to-day maintenance execution. When you take a look at the Weekly Schedule of your maintenance crew, it will be full […]
Without planning and scheduling you will fail
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is one of the 4 Essential Elements on the Road to Reliability™. Planning & scheduling, or work management as it’s often called, ensures the right work gets done, at the right time, with the right tools, materials, and people. Without an effective maintenance planning & scheduling process, you’ll never achieve high […]
How to Implement Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Implementing maintenance planning and scheduling effectively can transform an organisation’s maintenance operations. But most organisations that implement maintenance planning and scheduling do not achieve the long-term results they expect. Often, the improvements don’t last, even when the initial implementation seems successful. But, it doesn’t have to be like that. This article outlines a structured, proven […]
How to sell planning & scheduling to your CEO
Many implementations of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling fail. Often because senior management was never on board to begin with. In this article, I’ll show you how to fix that. I’ll show you how to sell Planning & Scheduling to your CEO. And in such a way that he actually wants you to implement it successfully. […]
