Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling

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Defining Results to Top Leaders and Operations Leaders

Abstract

This chapter strives to ensure that maintenance leaders provide top leaders accurate results so they will realize the potential increases in profits from the best practice of reliable maintenance planning, estimating, and scheduling. We can be very efficient at firefighting and performing reactive maintenance repair but not be truly productive. To break this cycle we must develop a new, disciplined approach to identifying, prioritizing, and completing properly planned maintenance work. The total operation must understand that an effective maintenance planning and scheduling program will produce greater productivity of the craft workforce by increasing uptime, minimizing costs, and ...