Participants will explore the best practices in planning and scheduling. They will also learn why some companies have successfully implemented planning and scheduling while other companies have consistently failed. ATTEND THIS TRAINING SESSION

1. Planning and Scheduling Workshop
Michel Cote, Senior Manager
Serge Doucet, Planning and Scheduling Advisor
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2. Objectives and Benefits
Workshop objectives
• Give participants the methods and concepts of recognized best
practices in planning and scheduling
• Allow participants to better understand why some companies are
successful at implementing and maintaining these best practices and
others are not
Benefits
• At the end of this workshop, you will be able to review the rollout
strategy of your maintenance planning and scheduling activities
• You will possess the tools and documentation that will help you carry
out and maintain targeted improvements of your planning practices
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3. Agenda
1 – The basics of Planning and Scheduling
2 – What Makes a Planning and Scheduling Process Effective?
3 – Expected Benefits of Planning and Scheduling
4 – How to Maintain the Processes in Place Once Implemented?
5 – The Planning Process 101
6 – The Planner’s Roles and Responsibilities
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4. Myths and Misconceptions
• All maintenance tasks must be planned down to the
nuts and bolts
• All of the parts required will be available to workers for the
work planned
• No maintenance task should be done without planning
• The supervisor cannot deviate from the
planning schedule
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5. Impacts of Not Planning
• Work duration is unnecessarily too long for routine
maintenance activities
• Emergency rate is high
• Prioritization of work is often wrong
• Frequent deviations from maintenance schedule
• Typically do not know what we will do tomorrow and
even less what we will be doing next week...
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6. Elements Found in a Planning &
Scheduling Environment
• A work order for each task to be done by maintenance
• A well defined priority system for work orders
• Estimated task duration on all work orders
• Parts and materials used are always linked to work orders
• Maintenance procedures are continually optimized
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7. Expected Benefits Resulting from a Planning
and Scheduling Process Rollout
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8. Expected Performance Improvements Coming
from the Planning and Scheduling Process
• Significant increase in maintenance wrench time
• Increase equipment uptime (availability rate)
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9. What Makes a Planning Process Effective?
The right processes developed with employee participation
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10. How Do You Maintain the New Processes in
Place Once They Have Been Implemented?
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11. The Planner’s Roles and Responsibilities
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12. Questions?
Michel Cote: mcote@prosygma.ca
Serge Doucet: sdoucet@prosygma.ca
www.prosygma.ca
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