MC-99-91 Lowest-cost Reliability with Planning & Scheduling

Description:

As margins become slimmer, attention is being turned to the Maintenance/Reliability Process to find cost savings and revenue improvement opportunities. There is a growing understanding of how much this key process in an industrial organization contributes to the financial success of the enterprise. Interwoven with the Maintenance/Reliability Process is the organization’s work culture, which must receive equal attention when making improvements. Maintenance planning and scheduling requires an up-front investment in time and people that is often viewed as insurmountable by many organizations. In addition to the technical aspects of planning and scheduling there must be discipline to sticking with the process by everyone in the organization. Results have proven that the investment in planning and scheduling will more than pay for itself, often returning millions of dollars to the organization’s bottom line.