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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook
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by: Richard D. Palmer
Topics include: reactive work orders, direct work time, section shows problems, deficiency tag, available line total, wrench time, section shows success, gained special experience, rotating spares, component tag number, plant backlog, equipment type code, staged items, mech crew, fastest technician, carryover work, reactive jobs, staging person, outage code, work order screen, daily scheduling meeting, reliable plant capacity, welder hours, blanket work orders, available craft hours
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With the Doc Palmer's Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook by your side, you can start to build a superior maintenance program right now - a program that helps you leverage the labor and equipment assets of your company for stellar plant productivity and profitability!
Use this down to earth, nuts and bolts guide to help get through that all-important maintenance planning and scheduling. It's filled with sample forms, work orders, data sheets, and more - ready to copy and use in your facility in an instant. Plus, you get all-important guidance on such topics as:
This guide enables facilities managers to dramatically improve the productivity of their maintenance plan
Clearly identifies the six basic principles of planning and the six associated principles of scheduling
Provides how-to information on implementing a planning function, using work orders, and performing in-house work sampling
Richard W. ("Doc") Palmer (Jacksonville, FL) is a consulting engineer and the author of numerous articles on maintenance planning and scheduling.
Contents:
Introduction
Planning as a Tool
Planning Principles
Scheduling Principles
Planning Implementation
Basic Planning. Basic Scheduling
Forms and Resources. Computers in Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, and Project Work. Control
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: A Day in the Life - May 10, 2000.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Planning Is Just One Tool; What Other Tools Are Needed?
Chapter 2: Planning Principles.
Chapter 3: Scheduling Principles.
Chapter 4: What Makes the Difference and Pulls It All Together.
Chapter 5: Basic Planning.
Chapter 6: Basic Scheduling.
Chapter 7: Forms and Resources Overview.
Chapter 8: The Computer in Maintenance.
Chapter 9: Consideration of Preventive Maintenance< predictive Maintenance, and Project Work.
Chapter 10: Control.
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Start Planning.
Epilogue: An Alternative Day in the Life - May 10, 2000.
Appendices.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
Reviews:
This is not AMPSB (another maintenace planning and scheduling book), when you read this book you can actually feel that you are in the real working world.Doc does not talk concepts he tells what happens in real Maintenance World and how to go to World Class Maintenance Management practices using 6 planning and 6 scheduling principals. I like the way Doc takes a reader through planning and scheduling of maintenance work by examples which makes this book different from other books, you cant find other texts doing this unless you are in the classroom. The Appendix about Work Order System is a million bonus for those who want to develop their SoP (Standart Operation Procedure). I will stick to this book as a reference in the process of developing a World-Class Maintenance Organization.I will also recommend this book to Maintenance Project Managers and Maintenance Management Consultants of any system (take it from me I am in aviation and I am applying his concepts). If you want to start or improve your Maintenance Planning Department START BY READING THIS BOOK.Good job Doc. If the was a 10 star I would have given it a 10star, this is a unique book I have ever read and practical to use.(...)
The most practical book I have ever read
The tips and guidelines of this book helped me not only to build a maintenance management system [aluminum rolling mills] from scratch but also to create a CMMS program (database) from where I could print many reports as well as work orders. Athough I have read many many books on maintenance and reliability topics, this particular book helped me to understand and apply the proposed theories focusing on details.
Ideal for all Maintenance Program Designers
Doc Palmer has provided a great tool for all Maintenance Program Designers and others to use. Mr. Palmer has provided good details and examples in the book while also making it as enjoyable to read as it is informative. I highly recommend this book to all who are step one and beyond in Maintenance Management and Development. One of the hardest espects of starting a new maintenance program for a company is often getting management to except the required changes. The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook helps by often having a ready example or referance to provide a second means to demonstrate to the client the how, why and effect on his bottom line. This reason alone is worth the cost of this book and then some.
Doc Palmer also drives home the truth about CMMS; when to invest and when to wait. This for me is very important for my specialty is designing Preventative Maintenance Operational Programs for the client. Once I have done so the client can invest in the exact CMM software they require. Unfortunatly all too often clients approach this backwards; they buy the program first and then hope someone like myself can make their operation work with the CMM. They end up spending thousands and a lot of their valued time for little reward at the end. If your company is in this position or about to be read this book before you do anything else.
Hand-on experience is crucial for performing successfull maintenance. It can be only your personal experience or, if you are dedicated to continual learning, you can "borrow" some of hard-to-gain experience from top-class professionals.Hand-on experience is crucial for performing successfull maintenance. It can be only your personal experience or, if you are dedicated to continual learning, you can "borrow" some of hard-to-gain experience from top-class professionals.
Every sentence in this book is illustrated with very concrete examples from real life, and that makes it invaluable. Author has comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of maintenance, and that is visible on any page of this book, so although it is thematically concentrated on planning and scheduling, it can be used by anyone involved in structure of companies' maintenance organisation.
From explaning overall corporate strategy regarding maintenance to decribing every particular day-to-day task of maintenance planner and scheduler, this book guides you through the whole process, in which planning and scheduling are vital subprocesses to bring anything else to life.
Although the book is oriented to explain manual documentation system, you can easily bring described principles in very extensive use of CMMS practice. You can only benefit from broader view that can only tear you off "computer-will-solve-everything" dreams.
This book provides details not found in others I have read. There is a great section on Wrench Time. I have presented 4 Stars only because I feel that this is not necessarily a book for beginners. A good basic knowledge is needed to interrupt processes and terminology difference between your facility and the book text. The examples presented in the book are designed as for a manual application so you must be able to mentally translate them into the application of your CMMS.
I highly recommend this book, more over, reguardless of current Planning/Scheduling level every Planner and Maintenance Professional should have a copy for quick review. It is our company's point of reference for providing knowledge as we build towards World-Class Planning/Scheduling.