TABLE OF CONTENTS Effective scheduling is inherent in effective planning. This chapter explains the reason why routine maintenance needs scheduling and then presents the principles of effective scheduling. Together, these principles create a framework for successful scheduling of planned maintenance work. Each principle sets guidelines on how maintenance should handle a different portion of the scheduling process.
Just as for planning, six principles greatly contribute to the overall success of scheduling. First, planners plan jobs for the lowest required skill levels. Second, the entire plant must respect the importance of schedules and job priorities. Third, crew supervisors forecast available work hours one week ahead by the highest skills available. Fourth, the schedule assigns planned work for every forecasted work hour available. And sixth, schedule compliance joins wrench time to provide the measure of scheduling effectiveness. Figure 3.1 shows the entire text of these principles.
Aids such as planning good job scopes and having parts identified and ready make it easier to complete maintenance jobs but do not ensure that more work will be done. Adopting all six planning principles from Chap. 2 does not ensure that more work will be done. The reason why is because these aids and principles make it easier to complete individual jobs. That is, each job assigned should be easier to complete than it would have been without such help. If a particular job that used to take about six hours now takes four...
