6 - Performing the Planning Function

• Published in: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling pp. 118 - 188
• Main Authors: Timothy C. Kister, Bruce Hawkins
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 2006
• ISBN: 0750678321; 9780750678322
• DOI: 10.1016/B978-075067832-2/50008-2

This chapter discusses maintenance planning. Maintenance planning is the advance preparation of selected jobs so that they can be executed in an efficient and effective manner when the job is performed at some future date. It is a process of detailed analysis to first determine and then describe the work to be performed, by task sequence and methodology. It includes developing an estimate of total cost and encompasses essential preparatory, post maintenance, and restart efforts of both operations and maintenance. The maintenance planner must have the requisite personal skills as well as professional skills derived from experience and through, comprehensive training to execute professional maintenance planning. The maintenance planner initiates job planning based on work orders received and the coded information on the work order. The coded information includes work type, work category, and work classification, but initially, the primary interest of the planner is focused on the priority that has been indicated for the work.