TABLE OF CONTENTS The scheduling function puts the work into the hands of the Maintenance Organization's tradespersons. Once work has been planned and equipment and material availability has been assured, work scheduling can be addressed.
The scheduling of maintenance work, including associated coordination with the equipment custodian, is the process by which designated resources and resource skill levels required to complete specific jobs are allocated. The allocated resources are further coordinated and synchronized to be at the proper place at a designated time, with necessary access, so that work can be started and proceed to completion with minimal delay, within the intended time frame and in accordance with predetermined priorities and budgets.
In simpler terms, the purpose of scheduling is to ensure that resources personnel and materials are available at a specified time and place when the unit on which the work is to be performed will also be available. Scheduling is a joint Maintenance/Operations activity in which maintenance agrees to make the resources available at a specific time when the unit can also be made available by operations. Work should be scheduled to have the least adverse impact on the operations schedule while optimizing the use of maintenance resources, especially labor.
On the start up of any new maintenance management implementation, scheduling should be viewed as the point element, the advertising (i.e., most visible) arm of the program. Scheduling necessitates early, positive participation of the users of maintenance service and yields the earliest tangible (often within weeks of start up)...
