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Planning & Scheduling Made Simple - Paperback
Planning & Scheduling Made Simple - Paperback
SKU:by Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson, 68 pages
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Stop the Chaos: The Field Guide to Increasing Wrench Time
Overview
If your mechanics spend more time hunting for parts, waiting on permits, or looking for information than they do turning wrenches, you don't have a people problem; you have a process problem. This book strips away the academic theory to focus on the single greatest lever for maintenance productivity: eliminating delays.
This is not a massive, theoretical textbook that collects dust on a shelf. It is a concise, tactical field manual designed to help you double your crew's effectiveness without hiring a single new technician. By implementing the "Complexity/Predictability Matrix" and "First Wrench Time" audits, you will move your organization from reactive firefighting to a controlled, proactive machine.
What this Book will help you do
What this Book will help you do
- Double Your Workforce Effectiveness: Use the "Leverage Calculation" to prove how one Planner generates the output of 3 additional mechanics by removing delays.
- Stop Planning Everything: Use the Complexity/Predictability Matrix to instantly decide which jobs require a full plan and which should be "Fill-In" work, saving hours of wasted administrative time.
- Audit Your Reality: Implement the First Wrench Time (FWT) audit to gather undeniable data on exactly where your team is losing time each morning.
- Protect the Schedule: Establish a "Fill-In Work" backlog (approx. 20% of labor) to absorb emergency jobs without destroying the entire weekly schedule.
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Standardize Job Plans: Use the "7 Bullet / 7 Word" rule to create job plans that technicians will actually read and follow, rather than ignoring them.
Who is it for?
- The Maintenance Manager: Who is drowning in backlog and needs to get more work done with the same headcount.
- The Planner/Scheduler: Who feels like a glorified "parts chaser" and wants to transition into a strategic role.
- The Production Leader: Who needs to understand why "interrupting the schedule" costs 5+ hours of productivity per incident.
The Payoff Calculation (ROI)
Research in this book highlights that interrupting a fully planned job costs the organization more than 5.0 hours of lost labor. If this guide helps you prevent just one interrupted job per month, the book pays for itself 50 times over in recovered labor hours alone.
Complete Your System
Planning is the execution engine of the WEM (Work Execution Management) domain. To ensure your plans align with your asset strategy, pair this with the Uptime® Elements Body of Knowledge (BoK).
The Author Authority
Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson dedicated this book to everyone "enduring the pain and frustration from working in a reactive maintenance organization." They have implemented these systems in hundreds of plants, proving mathematically that a single effective Planner can leverage the output of 15+ technicians.
