Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Outline

• What maintenance actually is and why it is becoming so important
• Failure behavior – What we mean by failure, what causes early life failure and the different patterns for end of life failure
• Definition of potential failure and how they can be used for planned maintenance
• Using the RCM decision tree
• Determining the optimum maintenance tactics and associated tasks
• Using an FMEA to develop preventive and predictive maintenance tasks
• Determining all the resources required to carry out the task and estimating the cost
• Calculating the long-term capacity requirements and determining the short-term manpower capacity available
• Determining the priority of jobs and scheduling with the available manpower capacity
• Defining maintenance tasks and the documentation to communicate these and the optimum flow of information and developing a comprehensive system
• Whether the shutdown is planned for a few hours or a few weeks, effective planning can save us substantial time and money
• What are the different parties involved and what should a maintenance planner’s job description look like