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Tuesday 20 August 2013

MS 57 IGNOU MBA Solved Assignment -Elaborate your understanding about maintenance planning and scheduling

Elaborate your understanding about maintenance planning and scheduling
Planning decides what, how and time estimate for a job. Scheduling decides when and who will do the job. Planning of a job should be done before Scheduling a job.
  • Customized or standard on-site classroom training in planning and scheduling
  • Coaching and implementation support to improve planning and scheduling on-site
  • Define or verify existing work processes.
  • Make sure all key functions such as planners, supervisors, and operations coordinators have clear roles.
  • Set clear priority rules and establish meaning and criteria for existing codes.
  • Improve work request usage and clarity.
  • Check backlog management and clean up if needed.
  • On-the-job planning enhancement for shutdowns (if applicable).
  • Shutdown/ Turnaround critique communication.
  • On-The-Job planning enhancement for day-to-day work.
  • Job package creation.
  • Staging areas.
  • Enhance and practice planning and scheduling meetings between operations and maintenance.
  • Implement Key Performance indicators (KPI’s).
  • Work on effective use of CMMS.
  • Hand-on support for history documentation.
  • Improvement of technical database (Bill Of Materials, technical data, equipment identification, etc.)
  • Improve integration with materials management
  • Contractor management and integration of work processes.

  • A Customized training for your plant
  • A standard training
  • On-The-Job Training


Ans : Maintenance Planning and Scheduling are key elements that influence the true success of any organization. Many times we have a planner or planner/scheduler, but do not know how to use him or her effectively or efficiently. When we talk about maintenance planning, we are talking about higher wrench time. At this time of economic uncertainty, a higher wrench time equals lower cost, which results in job security for all. Past studies have shown that most companies do not perform maintenance planning effectively thus impacting negatively work effectiveness, wrench time, equipment uptime, equipment reliability, and cost. If we were “Effective in Maintenance Planning”, it would result in Higher Wrench Time and Higher Equipment Reliability.
In Maintenance Scheduling, once we have achieved the discipline required and maintenance plans are completed on time the reliability of facilities and assets increase at a high rate.

A short definition of maintenance planning and scheduling: 
A common implementation initiative after a maintenance assessment is maintenance planning and scheduling.  IDCON can help your organization with:
Classroom training is usually effective to increase planning and scheduling awareness, however, in order to achieve sustainable improvement training has to be followed by immediate implementation after the training or very mediocre results will be the achieved.
On site and on-the-job training and implementation of a better work management process is – combined with a good condition based preventive maintenance program and an up to date accessible bill of materials – the most important process used to enable people to become more productive.
Implementation and coaching of better planning and scheduling is usually customized to our client. Typical activities include:
IDCON believes strongly in making sure the change process has buy-in and ownership in the organization.
It is therefore important that client’s organization takes ownership as soon as possible. IDCON role is to act as a catalyst, trainer, accelerator to coach improvements. 
Maintenance Planning and scheduling of work orders is the hub of a well functioning maintenance organization. In order for maintenance planning and scheduling to work many other systems need to work well. Most importantly equipment inspections through preventive maintenance, technical database such as bill of materials, work order history, and standard job plans. Maintenance spare part stores have to function well.
IDCON also provides training in planning and scheduling - Click here for more information

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