Tag: Planning and Scheduling

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Duration of job vs Labor hours required

When planning and scheduling, we need to have estimated hours to be able to schedule efficiently. Without estimated hours it makes it close to impossible to know your resource consumption. To take your scheduling efforts to the next level you need to understand the difference between Duration of job vs. labor hours required to perform the tasks. Labor hours are the time it takes to do the actual work. From when you first start your repair or inspection task. It is the time when value added work is accomplished. It is the time it takes you to replace that failed …Read more  »
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Selling Maintenance as a Profit Center

The best way to change perspectives is to show the entire organization how maintenance provides value. By Joe Anderson | Oct 13, 2015 Throughout my years in manufacturing maintenance, I have faced situations in which my peers and managers above me have had no understanding of the value of maintenance. For a long time, I blamed them. As I have matured in my management journey, I have come to understand that it is my job to educate everyone, not just those for whom I am responsible, about maintenance’s true worth. Example 1: Cost avoidance related to a vacuum pump failure …Read more  »
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