What You Need to Know Before Choosing Maintenance Scheduling Software There are dozens of options available when it comes to choosing maintenance software. All of them... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
4 Tips for Better Maintenance Scheduling Maintenance scheduling is a key element to the overall success of any organization. Companies that... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
11 Disadvantages of a Reactive Maintenance Program In our previous blog, Reactive vs Preventive vs Predictive Maintenance, we defined Reactive... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Adaptive Planning is Essential for Successful STOs Managing a shutdown, turnaround, or outage (STO) is a recurring initiative that spans many... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Improve Your Maintenance Results With Rigorous SMPs Standard maintenance procedures (SMPs) vary highly in quality and thoroughness, even within one... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Mastering Planning and Scheduling: 9 KPIs Every Planner and Scheduler Should Be Tracking in Maximo To remain competitive, asset-intensive organizations are looking to its’ teams to provide more... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How is Scheduling Customer Appointments Like Auto Racing? NASCAR, Formula One, and other auto racing pit stops are incredibly fast. Depending on the sport,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Is Your Team Reverting to Excel Instead of Their Current Scheduling Solution for IBM Maximo? What do you do when your current Planning and Scheduling solution lets you down? For a lot of... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Shouldn’t I Schedule in Excel? I’ve Done it This Way for the Last 10 Years Excel. It’s Old Faithful. The constant companion. It might not have all the Planning and Scheduling... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
As a Maintenance Planner or Scheduler, If You Can’t Do THIS, You Might As Well Call It a Day If you’re a NASCAR driver, you’re mainly worried about speed. If you’re a professional baseball... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Out of This World: An Ex-NASA Planning and Scheduling Professional Leverages AKWIRE Few – if any – children dream of becoming a software trainer when they grow up. But for perpetually... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How to Nail Down Your Maintenance Calendar for the New Year The beginning of a new year brings the opportunity to set goals for the year ahead. For many... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Do Your Maintenance Planners/Schedulers Get Enough Time in the Field? Maybe you’ve heard this question before, or maybe you’ve seen it circulating online. Maybe someone... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The Secret to Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Success (It’s Not What You Think) Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is a funny industry; not only because of the complicated,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The 5 W's (and 1 H) of Enterprise Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Shutdowns. For some, this word causes blood pressure to rise, hearts to race, and minds to spin.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Q&A With a Client: Working With a Planning/Scheduling Software Provider on the Other Side of the World In today’s increasingly global world, it’s no surprise that organizations with enterprise... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Conditional Formatting: Does Your Planning and Scheduling Solution Speak Your Visual Lingo? For many Planners and Schedulers with whom I’ve worked over the years, adopting new technology is... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The 12 Days of Time Savings: Planning & Scheduling Features That Help You Work Faster (Part 1) Forget the partridge in the pear tree or the turtle doves. There’s one gift that stands out above... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
6 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Maintenance Backlog In North America, we are entering the season of spring. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Major Aviation Organization Uses the Right Tools for IBM Maximo to Slash Scheduling Time By 90% When you’re a natural born problem-solver with a passion for helping people, you don’t mind... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Getting a New Planning & Scheduling Tool for IBM Maximo? 6 Tips to Master It In the age of technology, we are constantly being asked to learn. From updates for Windows and Mac,... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The 12 Days of Time Savings: Planning & Scheduling Features That Help You Work Faster (Part 2) As my colleague Janna wrote in the previous blog post, time is the most precious gift you can give... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Teaching Scheduling Professionals to Resolve Their Daily Challenges with Prometheus Planning & Scheduling Pop quiz: growing up, you wanted to be a teacher. But while earning a degree in Education, you... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The Must-have Process Checklist for Efficient Maintenance Planning and Scheduling OK, so I am an engineer. I fix what’s broken and have always felt a personal satisfaction in being... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Maintenance Planning & Scheduling should be a Key Initiative within your Organization (INFOGRAPHIC) Why is proper maintenance planning and scheduling such a hot topic? It cuts waste and improves the... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Are you Equipped to Face the New Realities of Enterprise Maintenance Planning and Scheduling? “If not now, when?” CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Record Fast Time-to-Schedule Means More Time for Critical Maximo Analysis: CASE STUDY Every week, Armando Zavala faced the same challenge: a long, repetitive process to schedule and... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Who Is This Maintenance Planner Person and Why Do We Need One? Since we have discussed the details of an efficient maintenance job planning process, let’s talk... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Benefits of Maintenance Planning for the Technician, Supervisor, and Management Imagine this: you’re called into work a half hour earlier than usual for a big meeting. Since... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Maintenance Job Planning Fails and How to Prevent It On the surface, this article may seem like a bit of a downer. It’s all about why maintenance... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The What and Why of an Efficient Maintenance Job Planning Process For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been working in the maintenance and operations field for... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How DTE Energy Saved Millions of Dollars in Time with IBM Maximo Tools Some folks close to retirement just want to ride out the time before they can hit the golf course... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Can You Make it Through These 7 Scary Planning & Scheduling Scenarios Without Getting Goosebumps? Ghosts and monsters. Creaking floorboards and moonless nights. You don’t have to look far this time... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Cornell University Stretched Their Maintenance Budget Further When one thinks of the caliber of results that are produced by a renowned research facility such as... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Top 10 Signs Your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Isn’t Working Why implement Maintenance Planning and Scheduling best practices? You’ve probably heard how... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
5 Things You Need to Know About Measuring Wrench Time Wrench time. It’s one of those hard to measure metrics and gets a fair bit of attention in the... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
6 Maintenance Scheduling Principles to Improve Overall Workforce Efficiency If you could increase the amount of time your company’s resources, engineers, and technicians are... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
6 Maintenance Planning Principles for Success in Planning & Scheduling Based on years of experience in maintenance and operations, including the maintenance and overhaul... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Daily Scheduling: How Do You Deal With Incomplete Work? In the world of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, if all work was completed as scheduled, we’d... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
5 Spreadsheet Myths and 7 Reasons You Should Stop Using Them to Schedule Maintenance Spreadsheet programs are some of the most universally abused software across the business world.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Worst Practice: A Guide to Driving Your Maintenance Organization Right into the Ground While Accomplishing Nothing Planning and scheduling are fundamental to the continuous improvement of your maintenance and asset... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Cameco Corporation Finds Their True North with Prometheus Planning and Scheduling for SAP Cameco Corporation is the world’s largest publicly traded uranium company, with mines, mills, and... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Close Are You to Planning Best Practices? One of the most effective ways to improve plant maintenance operations and wrench time is to... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why Scheduling Tools Without SAP/ERP Integration Are Hurting Your Organization When a problem occurs or equipment breaks, the standard procedure in most companies is to create a... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
A Journey from Space Telescopes to Simplifying Maintenance Scheduling in IBM Maximo If you ask Janna Kerr why she loves her job, she’s quick to answer: helping people. “I absolutely... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Why It’s a Bad Idea to Let Maintenance Technicians Pick Unscheduled Work Orders Everyone likes to have autonomy and choice as part of their work day. It’s human nature, I think.... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Doing It 'Right' through 2 Generations and 80 Years in Utilities and Maintenance Just like no two snowflakes are alike, the same can be said for each person’s career path. Some... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
What is a Maintenance Backlog and How to Tame the Backlog Beast As a Maintenance Planner or Maintenance Scheduler, do you sometimes feel like there are more fires... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
How Penn State is Creating a Facilities Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Centre of Excellence In any organization, success is dependent on people with different personalities and backgrounds... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Challenges of a Major West Coast Airport As a major travel hub in the Pacific Northwest, this West Coast airport sees 40+ million passengers... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling
Understanding the “Why?” in Your Maximo Data for Continuous Process Improvement I think everyone would agree schedule compliance and PM compliance are important to measure. After... CATEGORY: Planning & Scheduling