TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter continues the nuts and bolts of making the planning system work with regard to scheduling. The chapter shows exactly how to do the scheduling.
In actual practice, it may be helpful to note that persons may consider scheduling a somewhat vague term. To be more precise, advance or weekly scheduling means a scheduler allocating an amount of work orders for a week without setting specific days or times to begin or complete individual work orders. Likewise, daily scheduling means a crew supervisor assigning specific work orders to specific individuals to begin the next day. A maintenance group uses both weekly schedules and daily schedules. This chapter describes the activities to accomplish weekly and daily scheduling. In addition, the chapter covers how maintenance personnel stage material and tools. Although this book focuses on routine maintenance, the book also explains key scheduling concepts behind successful outages. Finally, the chapter compares and contrasts the concepts of scheduling with the concepts of quotas, benchmarks, and standards.
The scheduler performs most of the tasks of advance scheduling. The scheduler first gathers jobs from the waiting-to-be-scheduled file and any work returned from the previous week s schedule. The scheduler then allocates them into each crew s work hour forecast for the next week. The scheduler allocates jobs by work order priority, then number of work hours, but also makes other considerations per the scheduling principles. The scheduler utilizes scheduling worksheets for assistance. The end product is a package of jobs that...
