Focus on Reliability

Ask a plant manager how hard the maintenance crew works, and you will usually get a straight answer: hard. Long hours, weekend call-ins, always something on fire. So the number tends to land like a slap.

A maintenance planner's job is a crucial part of any successful maintenance and reliability program. Maintenance planners have a lead role in ensuring that all equipment and machinery is properly maintained, repaired, and, if necessary, replaced in a timely manner.

Struggling to put together a complete weekly schedule? It may surprise you, but you’re not alone.  Although the processes of work execution (preventive and predictive programs, planning, scheduling, coordination, storeroom and production partnerships) are foundational, many groups struggle to put it all together well. Without this foundation, more advanced concepts fizzle out quickly. Frustration ensues. There are many pieces that need to align to complete the entire work execution puzzle. Building this solid foundation is a key outcome of effective maintenance planning and scheduling training, which provides the framework to succeed where others struggle. To start, let's focus on developing the weekly maintenance schedule. There are some basic steps that you should address to move things forward.

Welcome to another guest post from our friend, Trent Phillips.

We pleased this week to have a guest blogger to provide insights to the People and Processes Focus on Reliability blog.  Please welcome my good friend, Trent Phillips from Novelis.  With this post, Trent addresses a common topic that I frequently hear almost everywhere.