The 5 Levels of Maintenance Scheduling

This episode of the weekly episode is about 5 levels of maintenance scheduling. These levels are a hierarchical series of schedule plans which really help to improve the scheduling process of any organization. These are:

• The 52-week schedule is the start of the implementation of these levels which provides the foundation of the Scheduling Horizon system. It enables the operation to focus on the exceptions, not the norms. The 52-week schedule is a high-level view of the reoccurring work. This includes Inspection and Planned Maintenance as this can continue for a whole year. Once the reoccurring work has been identified, it needs to be leveled. This ensures there is a consistent amount of reoccurring work each week. This level workload establishes the equipment requirements each week. This can be integrated with the operations scheduling to further define equipment requirements. An important note with 52-weeks scheduling. Specific work orders are not identified during this horizon. The schedule only looks at capacity requirements.

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The 7 Steps of a Work Managements Cycle

This episode of the weekly podcast is about Work Managements Cycle. WMC is the most basic framework any organization has in place to evaluate its performance and make improvements if needed. This cycle consists of 7-steps that when completed successfully make it possible to execute the Maintenance Plan and Scheduling Process. These steps are as follows:
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What is a Well Written Job Plan?

This show of the podcast is based on Job Plans.

These job plans are documents that contain a step by step action routine for daily maintenance issues that arise in an organization. It is a procedural process that defines the performance standards for execution of day to day work.

These plans are improved over time as the technicians face issues in the field and give feedback on their experiences to the planner.

This leads to a job plan which has some safest and efficient ways to implement jobs in the field creating a good Knowledge Management System which works as a library for job plans.
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