Eruditio's Implementation & Training Manager, Rick Clonan was named in the first group of the top 100 maintenance influencers to follow on LinkedIn. Sharing his experience, insight, and industry hot topics are a few of the many areas his promotes on his page. Read more by visiting: 100 People in Maintenance That You Should Follow.
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Of all the sites I have been in all over the world, I have never met a maintenance manager who said to me “You know Shon I just have too many people.” In fact most ask me how they should go about bringing more into their fiefdom. It usually sounds a bit like this: “I need to hire planners, supervisors and a few more crafts in order to improve my reliability. If I could get support for more I...
We want to congratulate our December Graduate of the Month, Douglas White of Amazon!
Recently, I had an interesting conversation about staffing the maintenance planner and scheduler roles with in a facility. The question was centered on whether a site should have the two disciplines split or if they should be combined. The answer in my mind is… it depends.
Here are my thoughts on criteria that affect the planner/scheduler organizational structure:
Size of the maintenance...
The topic of planning and scheduling and what each one means has been a big discussion point. The Chinese appear to have only one word that means both planning and scheduling but in reality everywhere I teach from Europe to the Middle East and all across the Americas there is confusion on the difference so today I thought I would share planning and then scheduling as the topic of the week....
