I keep reading posts discussing planned jobs and scheduled jobs. Many seem to use the terms interchangeably.

My thoughts are that scheduled work is work that 'may have been planned' or not. It is placed into a time schedule that meets the timing demands of production and availability of equipment. This could include extra work found during a PM, or minor repairs that can be delayed. Unscheduled would be any work that requires immediate attention, due to critical equipment failure and production shutdown.

Planned work would be any work that is fully planned for materials, estimated durations, skills, and all other resources needed, prior to being scheduled. Unplanned would be all work that has not gone through a full planning process. We consider all PM and PdM as planned. A TPM event would also be considered planned, since we develop a full process for the event. CM and EM would be considered unplanned work.

I would love to hear others opinions and see what metrics are being pulled to measure planned/unplanned or scheduled/unscheduled work loads.

Your thoughts, please?

Thanks in advance!

Spot on!
I like to view Planning as the "execution of work in your mind", so that we identify all the steps, the materials, logistics support etc. that we need, decide its duration and resources. Scheduling is the process of identifying the optimum time-window to do the work, assign the resources, materials and logistic support to execute the work.
As you rightly say, they are two distinct and separate though related processes.

Thanks for your reply. I think your view of "execution of work in your mind" is outstanding!!

Planned worked is: I like a detailed workscope that list every job and allocates manpower to that job and has a complete listing of each piece of equipment. This way each job has a calendar and assigns all jobs and ensures none overlap or interfer with another. This optimizes labor so one job doesn't hold-up another or conflicts. The planner through meetings and established machine repair requirements will have all materials on-site assigned equipment numbers so craftsmen can draw easily thus only needing one materials handler for an entire shut-down. Naturally, this requires scheduling and PdM technologies will ensure you can get to the schedule without failure.

Sam,

Am I to understand by your post that you consider scheduling as part of the planning process? We have distinct and separate planning and scheduling functions here. It appears that our schedulers are quite overloaded just by the scheduling process. They do, however, ensure that everything planned is in place prior to scheduling for execution.