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ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
MAINTENANCE+RELIABILITY
CENTER
Keep Your Planners
Focused
Here are 13 pitfalls that should
be avoided if your planner is
going to be effective.
WHY DO MAINTENANCE organizations
often struggle to implement successful planning and scheduling processes? As summed
up here, a white paper from Houston-based
Nexus Global Business Solutions Inc., points
to 13 pitfalls:
1. Selecting the wrong person as
planner
The planner/scheduler (planner)
position is one of the most critical in the
maintenance organization. Putting the
right person with the right skills in this
role is paramount to the overall success
of the group.
2. Inadequately training planners
Give your planners the type of training
that makes them successful in their jobs.
They're key to making a maintenance
department effective and efficient, and
increasing crew utilization.
3. Using planners as relief
personnel
A planner cannot-and should not-be
considered as a relief position (of
any kind) or tasked with multiple job
responsibilities. If these individuals are
doing everything they should be doing,
they won't have time for anything else.
4. Using planners for emergency
or unscheduled work
Don't use planners as "firefighters."
Beware of this common trap. If they are
constantly pulled away from planning
efficient, effective future work, a site will
never get out of a reactive state.
5. Planning work from a desk
Another trap involves some planners'
sense of "knowing it all." Planners must
always visit the jobsite. Otherwise,
they might not be aware of issues at a
machine for which they need to plan,
i.e., a safety matter, an access situation.
Planners are not relief personnel or firefighters.
Properly engaged, a planner will be more than
busy performing critical functions that move your
operations from reactive to proactive.
6. Improperly allocating
resources and material
Allocation of resources and material in
a sequence that allows performance of
essential work in the shortest time at the
least cost is a planner's most crucial (and
difficult) tasks. He/she should live to
reduce and eliminate wasted time.
To learn more, about this topic and other asset performance management
(APM) issues, visit nexusglobal.com.
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7. Providing poor job instructions
Planners must ensure that new and
seasoned mechanics alike have enough
information to do a job. If everything is
prepared properly, personnel should not
have to search for anything, including
information.
8. Not providing feedback
Once work is completed, proper feedback
must be documented to state what was
done. Post-job feedback will document
what it actually took to do the work, i.e.,
time, special tools, and materials, thus
helping the planner learn and prepare for
future work.
9. Not kitting and staging
Planning is work preparation. Planners
should prepare everything needed to
allow the job to be completed-without
the mechanics having to stop and go get
anything.
10. Asking mechanics for feedback
and not making the changes
Another common trap for planners is
related to PM work-order feedback. If
they convince mechanics to provide good
feedback, i.e., making edits, deletions,
and additions to tasks as they perform
them, it's important to make the suggested
changes. Otherwise, asking for and getting
feedback a second time will be difficult.
11. Not gaining cooperation and
coordinating with operations
partners
A planner can build the very best job plans
and put a great-looking schedule together
to get work accomplished. But if it's done
in a maintenance-department vacuum, it
won't be successful. Planners must build
partnerships with operations.
12. Poor backlog management
To stay efficient and prevent mistakes,
planners must keep backlogs of "ready-togo" work clean. They can't let work that's
already been done clutter a backlog of
open work orders.
13. Metrics
Too many metrics "muddy the waters."
Planners must choose those that best guide
the decision-making process for properly
running a business unit, then present
them in a graphic format that can be easily
understood in 20 sec. or less. MT
NOVEMBER 2015
http://www.nexusglobal.com
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