Someone once asked, "What is the plant manager responsible for?" The answer is "Everything."

To conclude the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, this appendix illustrates the type of knowledge and information a maintenance manager uses when evaluating or implementing a planned maintenance process and culture. These are some of the key questions that managers must ask themselves and others and the concerns behind the questions.

1. Do we consider planning as essential?

2. Do we have a feel for what our wrench time probably is? (Do we know why maintenance planning helps instead just doing it because we have always done it or just wanting to do it because others do it? Do we think our wrench time without effective planning and scheduling is probably at or below 35%? Do we want at least 50% wrench time? Do the craftpersons have an idea of the concept of wrench time? Do we have a desire to keep technicians on job sites? Do we want planning because we want to free up the work force to do more work? Do we think that we need to schedule more work? Do we want planning and scheduling to help take us there? Do we want weekly schedules? Do we realize how much planning and scheduling will help?)

3. Is the planning system accountable to someone? (Do we accept indicators helping to drive us, such as planned coverage, wrench time, schedule compliance, days of planned backlog, and percentage of reactive work? Is 80% of...