July 2009 archive

Maintenance Planning Essentials – Contingency Planning

Budgeting and Scheduling are fundamental needs of your facility. Your goal is to think through the scenarios that will protect you from failure.

Maintenance Planning Essentials – Assumption and Constraint Stages

The goal is to understand the real world issues that you face, such as budgetary pressures, equipment condition, facility history, rising energy costs, etc.

Maintenance Planning Essentials – Introduction and Expectation Stages

Strategies vary from planner to planner and in many facilities, last year’s plan is used without modification, or there is no plan at all.

Designing a Maintenance Plan

A good maintenance program uses a combination of the techniques above to ensure that facility elements are maintained and repaired cost-effectively.

Efficient Inventory Management with Barcodes

Although purchasing handheld scanners to benefit from bar coding does come with an up-front expense, it is an effective way to optimize inventory management in mid to large size organizations.