Backlog Management
Author : Daryl Mather
Maintenance Consultant
Few tools are as useful to managing the maintenance workload and effectiveness as the Maintenance Backlog. In many companies today management of the maintenance backlog has been neglected. As a result they are generally drowning in their own data. A poorly managed system has a dramatic effect on the entire delivery of maintenance services.
Although the situation may appear random and chaotic, there are several common symptoms of poor backlog management. From my observations of various maintenance demanding industries, these may include:
* Many duplicate works orders. This is one of the main issues causing waste in this area. Particularly if undiscovered they can result in wasted resources investigating already completed tasks. There are also the effects of re-ordering unrequired materials and additional planning effort.
* Non-standardised free text entries. Affecting future analysis and continuous improvement. This can also lead to confusion in planning and execution of works.
* No indication of forward resource requirements. Giving only best guess indications as to the true manning levels required.
* Poor coding of work orders (No business rules to guide these) Affecting the future analysis and continuous improvement function. This can contribute to important works being buried among the work order listing.
* Little focus on priorities, many unprioritised work orders. This results in corrective actions on the whim either the supervisor, or section manager. As there is nothing substantial to use as a guide, or give a rating relevant to other backlog works.
* Many tasks not kept in the backlog system. Maintained in lists external to the corporate system. Faith in the backlog system, and the maintenance delivery systems in general, are eroded.
* Unrequired works passing through the work order system, resulting in unnecessary expenditure.[/QUOTE]
APPENDIX A.
My view, piece of this thing: How things are,
but not many would dare to say
.. so much for having a working freedom of expression,
not only in papers and in talking about it,
Saying that ... you support the right to have your own opinion, and freely express it,
without being set in Prison, like Putin does it, like China does it ..
And you can trust me:
It is my firm opinion,
that you can judge the true nature of a forum, a country, any community,
by the way they treat
the Small and powerless
the Newbies
the Children
the Muslims
the Black
the Different
the Yellow
the Arabs
the Indians
the Minority
the Islamic peoples
the Redskins
the Immigrants .. legal or illegal
the Critics
the Coloured
the Dissidents (who DIS - IDENTIFY them self with how things currently are run)
I do not expect to get any credits, at this forum, my research, my work spent,
my effort to help and inform.
And so I expect nothing but being ignored and rediculed
for post my reply in this topic, as so many times before.
Such duely earned or not CREDITS a handful a$$lickers give to some others here, to the presidium here.
(.... read:
give to 50% of the moderaters of besserwissers att phpbuilder
i am sure you donrt get which 50% you belong to =
the good guys, will have doubt they are good
the machinelike inhuman ones, will for sure think they are part of good 50%)
Kick downwards and lick upwards
Supress those small and weak
and
Scratch the back of those in power, money and fame,
this is the way to get a piece of the cake, a pseudo place in the sun)
Kudose, if you take my advice:
stay away from thought of being a moderator.
You are too good person for this.
... in fact, really, you, like me belong to some better place, some better environment.
Some of Us, We desserve better 🙂
Power Corrupts, evenso 'harmless' moderator forum power, corrupts.
Corrupts to collegiality, like within police force.
Keeping of personal opinon tuned with group will be more important
than be a good fellow man to all people and try to tell. expose, the true state of things.
halojoy - have not a 'crushed skull, yet'
.. but do not be too surprised:
.. in not for long,
.
