Maintenance X Operation X Planning department 1

[lucaspenalva]

Hello there.

How is maintenance structured at your site?

I mean, how is the interaction between maintenance, operation and Planning department?

Who's " the boss"?

Does Operation have the autonomy to allow or not a maintenance service to happen?

Does planning dept plan activities without talking to maintenance and operation first? Does it also decide when to attend a corrective maintenance ?

 

[Jboggs]

If they aren't working together well that means that the party to whom they all three report is failing in his or her job of coordination, and isn't getting the most out of the complete organization.

 

[Stick.]

At an old job when I was supervising maintenance, production/planning ran the show and maintenance was along for the ride for the most part. I don't recommend running this way since it leads to unplanned downtime and an ineffective and disillusioned maintenance organization. There was one period at that job where we had a production supervisor that actually valued maintenance and allowed us fix the machine when needed (before a total failure) and this change, in combination with other changes she made on the production side, led to the best productivity on that machine in over a year.

Jboggs is right, whoever is in charge needs to make sure everything is balanced and coordinated. It shouldn't be an adversarial relationship, everyone needs to be pulling together in the same direction.