What are principles of maintenance planning? Have you applied them? Any good experiences and challenges?

* Keep backlog under control? not too high, not too low?

Attached is Doc Palmer's planning and scheduling principles. Anybody has applied these principles successfully?

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Josh,

I use this book and applied into my planner

Now, we try to use 6 principle of planning & scheduling and still go on after 3 months I'll evaluation maintenance process again.

Josh,

Now, I applied Six's Principles of Planning & Schedule to my planner (ref. to Doc Palmer's)
and after 6 months (end of this year) I'll evaluation the maintenance process.

Do you have a separate planning function there? How did you plan to imlement these principles?

My Planning still are in maintenance department, did not to separated. Now, some principle are going I begin training about six principle for my planner 3 months ago then setting up planning and scheduling work process

I think a separate planning section under Maintenance dept complies with the Planning principle no. 1.

Do the planners become schedulers as well or schedulers are work supervisors from respective disciplines?

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What is the ratio of your planners to technicians? 1 : 10 to 30?

Do you do work sampling?

Do you measure work schedule compliance?

Josh,

Now my orgranization have changed. We separate some maintenance guy to O&M (Operation & Maintenance) and doing minor repair, another guy still in maintenance department called Central Maintenance.

When planner assign to Central Maintenance, they hire contractor out come to repair (do not repair by themself) my ratio of planner now 1:15 for mechanic and electrical & instrument about 1:20

So, now I still measure schedule compliance separately and only for Central maintenance

I've actually implemented a theory called forecasting backlog. I know it sounds like an oxy-moron, but let me say...IT WORKS. With little or no planning and scheduling involved.
Overview-
Run a query like-
WHERE crewid like ‘TEAM%01' and historyflag = 'N' and targcompdate < trunc(sysdate +7) and targcompdate >= trunc(sysdate) and istask = 'N')
Then export the results to excel-
Then I run a macro to add formulas to count the diff between today and the target date- (days til due)
Then I email that to my crew everyday as a daily Plan for today-
Go and read the presentation at http://www.datapaste.com/pub/maximo-backlog.ppt
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