TABLE OF CONTENTS This appendix concisely recaps the text of the many principles and guidelines pulled together from throughout the book and helpfully puts them into a single place for reference.
The Planning Department increases the Maintenance Department s ability to complete work orders. Work plans avoid anticipated delays, improve on past jobs, and allow scheduling. Advance scheduling allows supervisors to assign and control the proper amount of work. A work crew is ready to go immediately to work upon receiving a planned and scheduled assignment because all instructions, parts, tools, clearances, and other arrangements are ready. The right jobs are ready to go.
The planners are organized into a separate department from the craft maintenance crews to facilitate specializing in planning techniques as well as focusing on future work.
The Planning Department concentrates on future work work that has not been started in order to provide the Maintenance Department at least 1 week of work backlog that is planned, approved, and ready to execute. This backlog allows crews to work primarily on planned work. Crew supervisors handle the current day s work and problems. Any problems that arise after the commencement of any job are resolved by the craft technicians or supervisors. After every job completion, feedback is given by the lead technician or supervisor to the Planning Department. The feedback consists of any problems, plan changes, or other helpful information so that future work plans and schedules might be improved. The planners ensure that feedback information gets properly filed to aid future...
