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EquipmentWorld.com | March 2018 37 job pack to enable the work to be executed safely and efficiently • Producing job plans that se- quence the tasks to perform and the necessary resources • Arranging all specialty tools, per- mits, vendors and equipment to perform the tasks. Scheduling is the process of: • Aligning activities with available resources (i.e. technicians, specialty equipment, vendor, tools, material) • Achieving maintenance execution effectiveness • Making decisions to optimize activi- ties within the same time period • Publicizing the work schedule to allow for proper and required de- partmental involvement for timely equipment release. Here is how the process works: 1. Identify This activity describes the process of raising a notification/work-order request. It must be easy to activate a request for work. There should be a process to prioritize equipment by class based on impact to operations and therefore set work priorities on the time limits to perform that work based on immediacy. For example, a downed paver with a screed issue would be Priority 1 (fix within 24 hours) because it is a Class-A piece of equipment based on its impact to operations. 2. Plan (Work preparation) This activity describes the process of collecting information and prepar- ing the resources to safely and effectively perform the maintenance task. It could also include scoping or examining the job. A planner de- termines what is needed to perform the job to include the sequence of steps, specialty tools, bill of materials (parts), PPE and necessary resources to perform the job. This is referred to as the "kit," and it is staged in a convenient place for retrieval. The objective is to save time for techni- cians by having all the necessary resources assembled for them versus wasting time looking and waiting. 3. Execute The step when activities take place in the field. The end result is a job done effectively as planned. The key process here is to make sure the job got done and done correctly. 4. Schedule This is the process of creating a weekly schedule with work orders and PMs to be executed during the schedule period based on priorities. The backlog (work that has been requested but not yet performed) is examined along with new requests and matched against available re- sources (technicians, vendors). The schedule is negotiated with opera- tions in a weekly meeting and then published so that everyone under- stands the commitments. 5. Close-out At this point, work completion is confirmed and steps are taken to close out the work order in the CMMS. Labor and materials are applied along with descriptions of work performed. Follow-up work may be generated. management | continued