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Tim Kister, Life Cycle Engineering

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Workforce Development March 12, 2010

Effective task planning can optimize your outage

Outages can only be successful when the outage work is planned effectively before the work is scheduled and/or started.

By Tim Kister, Life Cycle Engineering
Workforce Development September 1, 2006

Avoid the misguided application of the maintenance planner scheduler

If you consider all of the organizations and companies that have maintenance departments, typically only one third of them have the planner/scheduler position in place. Within that group of companies, typically only 10% of those planner/schedulers are effectively being utilized. Why is there such a gap in the effective utilization of the planner/scheduler position? The main reason is the lack o...

By Tim Kister, Life Cycle Engineering