Maintenance Planning, Coordination, and Scheduling, 2nd Edition

Based on real-world experience this invaluable guide and reference tells the whole story of maintenance planning from beginning to end in a concise and easy-to-follow manner. Written by well-known professionals this new edition focuses specifically on the preparatory tasks that lead to effective utilization and application of maintenance resources in the interest of the reliability essential to business objectives. It comprehensively examines the job preparation process from job scoping and planning, to determination of material requirements, estimation of labor requirements and job duration, coordination of all involved parties, and job scheduling. And it includes essential metrics for measuring performance of all contributing functions. It is a vital training document for planners, an educational document for those to whom planners are responsible, and a valuable guide for those who interface with the planning and scheduling function and are dependent upon the many contributions of planning and scheduling operational excellence.
 

• Expanded coverage of the proactive culture and environment that senior management must nurture throughout the organization, and the essential supportive roles of other functions essential to the preparatory process.
• A new chapter that enumerates prerequisites to effective Planning, Coordination and Scheduling.
• The Scheduling chapter has been expanded to include a debate comparing two popular approaches to the scheduling and achievement of Schedule Compliance.
• The Material Support chapter is significantly expanded.

About the Authors
Preface
The Purpose of this Book
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Selling Planning, Coordination, and Scheduling to Management and Operations
Chapter 2 : Prerequisites to Success Preparation
Chapter 3 : The Nature of Maintenance Activities and Related Organizational Structure
Chapter 4 : Where Planning Fits into Good Maintenance Practices
Chapter 5 : Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 6 : Managing the Planning and Scheduling Function
Chapter 7 : Backlog Management
Chapter 8 : Development of Work Programs and the Maintenance Calendar
Chapter 9 : Sizing the Maintenance Staff
Chapter 10 : The Proactive Process of Work Preparation
Chapter 11 : Detailed Planning of Individual Jobs
Chapter 12 : Materials Support
Chapter 13 : Work Measurement
Chapter 14 : Analytical Estimating
Chapter 15 : Coordination with Operations
Chapter 16 : Scheduling Maintenance Work
Chapter 17 : Job Execution and Supervision
Chapter 18 : Job Feedback, Close Out, Analysis, and Schedule Compliance
Chapter 19 : Computerized Maintenance Management Information System (CMMIS) in Support of Planning, Coordination, and Scheduling
Chapter 20 : Planning Major Maintenance Projects
Chapter 21 : Network Analysis-Development and Depiction

Appendices
A : Position Description – Manager of Maintenance Support
B : Recognizing the Pitfalls in Planning for Others
C : Job Description – Maintenance Planner/Scheduler
D : Labor Library – Example
E : Alternate Approach to Scheduling
F : Typical Sources of Planned Maintenance Work
G : Planner Activity Log Sheet
H : Determination Worksheet Ratio of Technicians to Planner/Schedulers
I : Assessment – Maintenance Organization
J : Assessment – Maintenance Computer Information Support
K : Assessment – Maintenance Work/Job Planning
L : Assessment – Maintenance Work Measurement
M : Assessment – Maintenance Material Support & Control
N : Assessment – Maintenance Coordination & Scheduling
O : Assessment Summary & Comparison to Benchmarks
Glossary
Index