Your maintenance team is struggling to stick to scheduled plans. How can you inspire them to stay on track?

Inspire your maintenance team by setting clear, achievable goals, and providing regular feedback and recognition. Encourage open communication, offer training and support, and involve them in planning. Foster a sense of ownership and accountability, and celebrate successes to keep motivation high.

Claro, la realidad de muchas empresas es que hoy en día exigen resultados, sin brindar los recursos necesarios para ejercitarlo. Es indispensable contar con el refaccionamiento necesario para los mantenimientos programados con anticipación, ya que eso nos asegura al 100% que todo lo que se programo puede ser ejecutado, posteriormente asegurarnos del personal necesario para el cumplimiento del plan, ya que el material cubre un 50% de la actividad y la mano de obra el otro 50%, de manera implicita asegurarnos de que cuenten con el conocimiento necesario para ejecutar la actividad y de ser necesario delegar un supervisor para asegurarse de las actividades a realizar

The main issue between maintenance and maintenance planning arises from a lack of understanding of each other's benefits and roles. This misunderstanding impacts the organization as a whole. However, raising awareness among all team members about the importance of planning and its impact on team performance, and bridging the gap between planning and practical technical work, ultimately leads to resolving the problem. This alignment of perspectives and unified goals contributes to the success of the project overall.

Key performance indicators to be devised and updated as per market standards. The target should be to improve without burning out of people. One approach can be maintenance plan to be revised based on risk & reliability study. It will take off unnecessary attention from low risk equipment and divert attention to high risk equipment. This improving overall work process

When you look at maintenance planning often times planners try to schedule a full shift. Several factors contribute to why maintenance schedules fail. Wear and tear- this is a progressive yet guaranteed issue. Example the more things are un bolted the inevitable is going to happen threads will get worn and stripped. Depending on location it could lead to a major event to repair. Un foreseen- many times you show up to do a job and mid process you find other issues that are easier to address while scheduled maintenance is currently happening. This generally adds additional task time. Human issues- any maintenance group can tell you that operators add to complications. As operators they try to maintain production not maintenance.

If at all possible companies should bring in manufacturers of the equipment being used. Generally speaking if there job is to mass produce the machine then they have all the tricks to work on them.

You should provide the technician with adequate time to perform yhe task but additionally you need to provide them with exploration time. This time is to give the technician time to fully assess the situation and make observations that could lead to a better solution. During this time you allow the technician to discuss with the team what they observe and how they feel it should be handled. It's easier to discuss problems while the problem exists. "You can't diagnose something that isn't broken"

This can also have a negative effect. If you always reward the accomplishments of a failed schedule. Then the opposite tends to happen, you start to recieve less on-time maintenance. Because the security of being rewarded while not completing the task, leave the impression that the schedule doesn't have an actual purpose. Not saying that things don't always go different than planned. But it's a fine line balance on rewarding failure to keep moral and rewarding teams when that complete a task that took longer because of changed circumstances.

Additional wrench time study to be conducted. All wasters to be identified & practices to be devised making it work efficiently.

Preventive maintenance isn't just lubrication. A successful preventative maintenance involves the complete tear down of the machine. This is also the best training the team can receive. By Breaking the equipment down and rebuilding, you get a better understanding of how it all works. You also locate problems that are otherwise unseen. And practices makes progress which builds speed. Many times a quick fix can lead to a long down time. Trying to repair something in place often gets tricky fast. One fix could just be a bandage covering the real problem.