Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Third Edition builds on the work's dominance in its field, with major additions to its treatment of outage management, the business case for planning and scheduling, and best practices. The book contains case studies, uniform charts and graphs, and all the knowledge gleaned by the author in the intervening years as an expert and lecturer on the topic of maintenance planning.

Brand new chapter on outage management with specific information on pre-outage, during-outage, and post-outage tasks
New section on the use of deficiency tags to improve the work order process
More case studies with the focus on the potential benefits to the company
Updated KPI (Key Performance Indicators) for managing maintenance with planning and scheduling, including sample calculations
Includes flow charts and other templates for engineers to use in everyday tasks

Complete coverage: The Business Case for Planning; Planning Principles; Scheduling Principles; Success after Dealing with Reactive Maintenance; Basic Planning/Work Orders; Advance Scheduling; Daily Scheduling and Supervision; Forms, Tools, and Resources; The Computer in Maintenance (How They Can Both Help and Hinder Planning); How Planning Interacts with Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, and Project Work; Control; Shut-downs, Turn-arounds, and Outage Management; Conclusion: Start Planning

Richard (Doc) Palmer has more than 30 years of industrial experience as a practitioner, primarily within the maintenance department of the Jacksonville Electric Authority, where he was responsible for overhauling the existing maintenance planning organization. Palmer currently provides guidance, mentoring, and training for global companies in maintenance planning success. He is a registered professional engineer with a master''s degree in business administration and is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).