ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most important process that maintainers “own” within any business is “work management.” It is all about getting needed work done. The work itself is dictated by preventive, predictive, detective, and runto-failure strategies, and it may include execution of projects that modify the plant. Getting all the work done in an effective and efficient manner is what work management provides. If that is achieved, operations experiences the least disruption to their operating cycles, they can then produce more, maintenance costs are minimized and equipment operates well, producing good-quality outputs with the least input of energy and the least generation of pollution. Good work management gets the most productive effort out of your workforce, keeping them busy doing meaningful work and getting the work done that keeps production running. Arguably, if you achieve this last goal of getting the most productive effort from your workforce, you will achieve the other goals much more easily.
