TABLE OF CONTENTS As stated earlier, whenever maintenance is performed, regardless of organization style, it is planned. However, the primary questions remain: who is doing the planning, when are they doing it, to what degree, and how well? Because planning and scheduling functions are at the hub of all maintenance activity coordination; these functions rate a professional grade classification and assignment of only professionally trained, experienced and qualified personnel.
Maintenance Planning is the advance preparation of selected jobs so that they can be executed in an efficient and effective manner when the job is performed at some future date.
Maintenance Planning is a process of detailed analysis to first determine and then to describe the work to be performed, by task sequence and methodology.
Maintenance Planning provides for the identification of all required resources, including skills, crew size, labor-hours, spare parts and materials, special tools and equipment.
Maintenance Planning includes developing an estimate of total cost and encompasses essential preparatory, postmaintenance and restart efforts of both operations and maintenance.
The Maintenance Planner must have the requisite personal skills as well as professional skills derived from experience and thorough, comprehensive training in order to execute "professional" Maintenance Planning. When these attributes are in place, the effective utilization of maintenance personnel can be increased by as much as 65% and job execution time can be reduced by as much as 40 to 50% (see Figure 6-1).
