Maintenance
Planning and Scheduling
Consulting and Training

Solutions for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Given its ability to help you avoid avoidable delays such as waiting on materials or looking for information, effective planning and scheduling can yield the greatest return on your investment in maintenance by increasing productivity and profitability. Every dollar spent on planning and scheduling saves three to seven dollars in execution.

Maintenance planning and scheduling can drive up technician wrench time, focusing your crafts on doing the right work and giving them the proper time and resources for doing so. The resulting improvements in asset availability flow to your organization's bottom line.
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Implementing proven processes and methodologies that streamline performance can also provide the following maintenance planning and scheduling benefits.

• The right materials at the right time
• Information to execute the work right (precision steps)
• The equipment available for the work
• Buy-in and job satisfaction from your team
• Improved collaboration with other departments
• Greater compliance with your Corrective and PM schedule
• Reduced costs and failures

It’s not about working harder, it’s about being smarter.

Some ways we guide you with Planning and Scheduling

People and Processes can help you increase productivity and profitability by improving maintenance planning and scheduling through our training, coaching and consulting services.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Assessment
Assessing factors both benefiting and prohibiting effective planning and scheduling within your organization will help you create an improvement strategy. Read more
Identify possible issues in areas like your backlog, planning support systems, and material procurement and delivery.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Streamline your maintenance performance by implementing proven processes and methodologies. Read more
Effective planning, scheduling and coordination of maintenance activities are the major components of achieving the objectives of best practices. People and Processes can help you implement best practices such as by helping you to:

• Provide the right information for the technician to more easily perform the job;
• Identify the right parts and materials, having them staged and kitted;
• Interface with the Operations partner to ensure the equipment is available for Maintenance at the specified time; and
• Ensure that the right priority Maintenance work is accomplished based on business needs.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and mentoring can help your Maintenance Planner Scheduler work more effectively. Read more
Our coach works side-by-side with the Planner Scheduler(s) to identify and remove obstacles, like by developing libraries of job plans for repetitive use and creating feedback forms and continuous improvement loops.