In an ever-increasing competitive industries like Manufacturing, Mining, Power and Utilities and Oil & Gas, the maintenance division is typically required by management to increase asset and equipment uptime with minor breakdowns and lower cost. For this type of situation, the maintenance departments feel the lack of resources. Work orders keeps coming in, but not many get done.
A study from SMRP shows that the average “wrench time” of available maintenance personnel is only 35%. It means that on an average day, an organization’s maintenance force only spends about 3 ½ hours on completing maintenance work. The remaining hours are wasted on gathering parts, travelling, meetings, breaks, and other “non-productive” activities that have nothing to do with working on asset and equipment maintenance.
Without proper planning and scheduling, maintenance is uncoordinated, costly and ineffective, leaving the team to fail in meeting deadlines. These failures will cause constant problems for the Operations department, who will become increasingly reluctant to release equipment in the future. This can directly contribute to higher maintenance cost, inadequate maintenance execution and rapidly deteriorating plant integrity.
At a time when the engineering workforce is growing older and retiring, during an industry-wide and world-wide skill shortage, Salvo’s 3-day Essentials of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling course teaches your maintenance planners how to organize maintenance work well and use fewer maintainers while lifting operating uptime and throughput for less cost. The course trains Attendees on the key points and best practices of
planning and scheduling so when they return to work they can use the right methods and practices in the operation. Substantial and comprehensive course notes are provides and the full PowerPoint presentations are given to every attendee for future reference.
