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Skills for a
maintenance planner
One of the most important skills the maintenance planner will
possess is the ability to communicate effectively with others.
The planner serves as the center point on a hub between
maintenance, operations, storeroom, supervisors, and
engineering.
The planner
usually will meet with the maintenance supervisor at least
once per day to review past and future work and to deal with
any required changes.
Once the
maintenance planner is in place, a long-term training program
should be developed that exposes the planner to various
quality improvement skills such as the use of Pareto charts,
root cause analysis techniques, and problem solving methods.
How to select
training resources
It is important to gain a comprehensive understanding of what
is required for a successful maintenance planning and
scheduling program. A formal training program can be useful to
everyone who will be involved, including management. Look for
programs that cover the basics well. If you can implement the
basics well, you will have an effective maintenance planning
and scheduling program.
Be sure to ask the
training company for customer references and follow up with
the supplied names. Ask about the actual real world experience
of the trainers in maintenance planning and scheduling.
Implement
before anything else
There are many popular buzzwords and maintenance management
paradigms such as reliability centered maintenance (RCM),
total productive maintenance (TPM), predictive maintenance
(PdM), and condition-based maintenance (CBM) that seem to hold
many of the answers needed to improve machinery reliability
and overall asset management.
Juhnke notes,
"Most programs and technologies need to be applied on a
planned and scheduled basis."
Without a solid
foundation of maintenance planning and scheduling, many of
these programs will fail or will not live up to their full
potential. As Smith says, "If you think planning and
scheduling won't work in your organization, you are right. If
you think planning and scheduling will work in your
organization, you are right. What do you think?"
This article was
originally published in Maintenance Technology Magazine May
2001. Reliabilityweb.com members qualify for a free
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