Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, 4th Edition

The industry-standard resource for maintenance planning and scheduling—thoroughly revised for the latest advances

Written by a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) with more than three decades of experience, this resource provides proven planning and scheduling strategies that will take any maintenance organization to the next level of performance. The book resolves common industry frustration with planning and reduces the complexity of scheduling in addition to dealing with reactive maintenance. You will find coverage of estimating labor hours, setting the level of plan detail, creating practical weekly and daily schedules, kitting parts, and more, all designed to increase your workforce without hiring. Much of the text applies the timeless management principles of Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Dr. Peter F. Drucker. You will learn how you can do more proactive work when your hands are full of reactive work.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Fourth Edition, features more new case studies showing real world successes, a new chapter on getting better storeroom support, major revisions that describe the best KPIs for planning, major additions to the issue of “selling” planning to gain support, revisions to make work order codes more useful, a new appendix on numerically auditing planning success, and a new appendix devoted entirely to selecting a great maintenance planner.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Fourth Edition covers:

• The business case for the benefit of planning
• Planning principles
• Scheduling principles
• Handling reactive maintenance
• Planning a work order
• Creating a weekly schedule
• Daily scheduling and supervision
• Parts and planners
• The computer CMMS in maintenance
• How planning works with PM, PdM, and projects
• Controlling planning: the best KPIs for planning and overall maintenance
• Shutdown, turnaround, overhaul, and outage management
• Selling, organizing, analyzing, and auditing planning

Foreword
Preface
Preface to First Edition
Acknowledgments
Prologue : A Day in the Life - Before Implementing a Proper Planning and Scheduling Program

Chapter 1 : Why Do Planning (The Business Case and Real Success Stories)
Chapter 2 : Planning Principles (What Makes Planning So Frustrating and What Makes It Work?)
Chapter 3 : Scheduling Principles (Why Do We Have to Do Scheduling and What Makes It Work?)
Chapter 4 : Handling Reactive Work in a Planning Environment
Chapter 5 : Basic Planning (Lets Plan a Work Order)
Chapter 6 : Advance Scheduling (Lets Create a Schedule)
Chapter 7 : Daily Scheduling and Supervision (What Should the Supervisor Be Doing?)
Chapter 8 : Parts and Planners (Getting Better Storeroom Support and Guidelines for Kitting Parts)
Chapter 9 : Computer Basics for Planning
Chapter 10 : How Planning Works with Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, and Project Work
Chapter 11 : Controlling Planning (Best KPIs for Planning and Scheduling Performance)
Chapter 12 : Best Practices for Shutdown, Turnaround, Overhaul, and Outage Management
Chapter 13 : Conclusion and Selling Planning (Gaining the Support of Management and Staff)

Epilogue : An Alternative Day in the Life - After Implementing a Proper Planning and Scheduling Program
Appendix A : Planning is Just One Tool (What Other Tools Does Best Maintenance Need?)
Appendix B : The People Side of Planning
Appendix C : What to Buy and Where to Buy It to Set Up a Planning Function Office-Wise
Appendix D : Example Forms, Work Orders, and Plans for Planners
Appendix E : Step-by-Step Duties of Planners and Others
Appendix F : DIY Wrench Time Study, Quick and Easy In-House
Appendix G : Sample Work Sampling (Wrench Time) Study : "Ministudy"
Appendix H : Sample Work Sampling (Wrench Time) Study : Full-Blown Study
Appendix I : Special Factors Affecting Productivity
Appendix J : ExampleWork Order System and Codes Manual
Appendix K : Equipment Schematics and Tagging
Appendix L : Advanced CMMS Topics
Appendix M : Starting and Organizing a Planning Group (Plus Barriers and Aids to Success)
Appendix N : Selecting a Great Planner
Appendix O : Example Training Tests for Planners and Change Agents
Appendix P : Auditing Maintenance Planning
Appendix Q : Contracting Out Work
Appendix R : Concise Text of Objectives, Principles, and Guidelines
Glossary
Bibliography
Index