How to know if your maintenance planning and scheduling is not effective
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Effective maintenance planning and scheduling significantly increases 'wrench-time' in maintenance departments, with world-class organizations achieving 55-65% compared to the typical 18-30%. Common barriers to effective planning include lack of knowledge, inadequate support, and reactive maintenance practices. To improve effectiveness, steps such as training personnel, creating standard operating procedures, and developing dashboards should be implemented.
How to know if your maintenance planning and scheduling is not effective
- 1. How to Know if your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is Effective or Not and what to do about it? By Ricky Smith CMRP Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is the one function which makes the most impact in any Maintenance Department resulting in increased “Wrench-Time”. Many organizations struggle with increasing “Wrench-Time” through either ineffective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling or not having a Planning and Scheduling Function. World Class Wrench Time is 55-65%; most companies’ Wrench Time is between 18-30%. Low wrench-time impacts maintenance cost, production rate, stores stockouts and so much more. • Example: If you have 10 Maintenance People who work 40 hours a week and your wrench-time is only 35% • Here is the math: Wrench-Time Example: 35% • 10 Maintenance Tech • Work 40 hours a week • 10 x 40 x .35 = 152 hours of proactive work (hands on tool Time) Wrench-Time Example: 65% • 10 Maintenance Tech • Work 40 hours a week • 10 x 40 x .65 = 260 hours of proactive work (hands on tool Time) • 58% Increase in Wrench-Time
- 2. How to know if Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is effective or not? People do not have the knowledge or understand the benefits of maintenance planning and scheduling, “Example”: A reduction in reactivity thus resulting in reduced stress for everyone, increased capacity, decrease in cost, and reduction in equipment failures No Maintenance Planner/Scheduler – technicians planning/scheduling is Adhoc and this ineffective Maintenance is Reactive, Tech looking for parts, looking for supervisor, looking for production Leadership does not demonstrate support for successful planning and scheduling resulting in stress for everyone People have biases based on experience with planning and scheduling however they have never seen “Proactive Planning and Scheduling” We are measuring the wrong things People say they have seen it before, and it does not work No one knows the “Score in the Game” (Maintenance Planning and Scheduling) Management does not want to invest in Planning and Scheduling’s through training and possibly coaching People are afraid people will lose their jobs as wrench time increases We don’t know what we don’t know What to do about Planning and Scheduling is either not effective or nonexistent? 1. Send your Maintenance Planner and Best Maintenance Technician to Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Training 2. Create an SOP for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling 3. Define Roles and Responsibilities for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- 3. 4. Create a Process Map for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling 5. Create a Dashboard for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Join me for this upcoming workshop Contact me for questions or advice at rsmith@worldclassmaintenance.org