Managing Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

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by: Michael V. Brown

Topics include: Total Hours, Job Steps Crew Hours Material, Planner Date, Total Job Estimate, Total Labor Cost Total Mat, Labor Hrs

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A good plan is good for business

Breakdown maintenance still accounts for much of the time maintenance workers put in. Too often, the result is lost revenue, excessive downtime, and poor-quality repairs. This convenient, practical guide shows you how to develop a comprehensive planning and scheduling effort to ensure all resources are available when they are needed. Youll discover how to gather supportive data and build plans that will help you control maintenance costs and equipment downtime.

* Make informed decisions about the most effective way to perform maintenance
* Establish solid shutdown schedules
* Set reasonable goals based on your budget
* Understand a range of estimating and scheduling methods Structure a work order system that supports your plan
* Allocate money, material, and labor resources for maximum productivity
* Use multi-skill training to its best advantage
* Formulate methods to identify the right work to be performed during a shutdown

Book Info
A key reference that explains the foundations of successful plant management and maintenance planning, this book shows how to implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategieswhile avoiding the problems and downtime that come with repairing equipment only when it fails. Managing Maintenance Planning and Scheduling shows readers how to determine the level of maintenance required to achieve an optimal standard of equipment readiness.
Pocket guide shows how to develop a comprehensive planning and scheduling effort for ensuring all resources are available when they are needed. Also demonstrates how to gather supportive data and build plans for controlling maintenance costs and equipment downtime. Softcover.

About the Author
Michael V. Brown is an electrical and maintenance engineer with 30 years of experience in industry, and has held positions at both the plant and corporate levels of Fortune 500 companies. As founding partner and president of New Standard Institute, he has designed and implemented maintenance management improvement programs for numerous industrial clients. New Standard Institute provides seminars, consultations, and computer-based training programs specific to maintenance-related subjects. For more than a decade, he has written articles that have been published in many U.S. and Canadian magazines, as well as on the Internet. Other books he has written and published by Wiley include Audel Managing Maintenance Storerooms and Audel Managing Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Defining the Level of Maintenance
Chapter 2. Estimating Methods
Chapter 3. Planning and Estimating Electrical Work
Chapter 4. Understanding Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 5. Scheduling Methods
Chapter 6. Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages
Chapter 7. Gathering Data for Maintenance Performance Indices
Chapter 8. Using Indices to Measure Performance
Chapter 9. Using Multiskill Training
Appendix A. Identifying Electrical Work to Be Performed During a Shutdown
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