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MAINTENANCE
SCHEDULING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – BANDUNG
Effective maintenance scheduling can reduce production downtime. Improve your
maintenance and shutdown scheduling by implementing six principles of scheduling:
Principle 1: Develop job plans that provide details such as number of persons
required, minimum skill level, and estimated labor hours.
Principle 2: Adhere to weekly and daily time schedules. Prioritize work.
Principle 3: Forecast a weekly labor hours schedule for each crew based on
technician skills available for the week.
Principle 4: The weekly schedule assigns work for every labor hour available. Use the
details of job plans to match labor hours available with estimated labor hours.
Principle 5: The maintenance crew supervisor schedules and assigns daily work. Use
current job progress, job priority, and other relevant information as a guide for
planning the daily schedule.
Principle 6: Measure schedule success. Use schedule compliance with the one week
schedule as the measure of scheduling effectiveness.
Principle 1:
Plan For Lowest Required Skill Level