Planning Principles
There are six principles of planning and these are:
1. Organising planning functions with separate
responsibility and identity.
2. Making planners to concentrate on future works as one
of their primary tasks.
3. Asking planners to maintain simple base files as part
of their work systems.
4. Training planners to expertise their job and dictate
the job requirements through their dedicated work plans.
5. Helping planners to recognise the skill of the crafts
required and arrange.
6. Organising planners to work sample their tasks while
execution and hence measure the planning effectiveness.
Let us look into each of these in detail:
1. Organising
planning functions with separate responsibility and identity
In this principle, the planning function is organised as
a separate function. Personnel who are most experienced and having expertise as
craft maintenance crew are selected and assigned to the planning section. This
type of selecting within the department and assigning a separate function will
further facilitate specialisation not only in planning processes, but also
focuses on the future works to be executed.
It is better that these identified Planners report to a
different supervisor who will be responsible to providing direction and has an
obligation to complete the assigned work in an expeditious manner, with a
minimal interruptions.
The planners should engage in
preparatory works. Planning
activities must flow smoothly across the maintenance department. Planners need
to work closely with the maintenance crew for proper execution of work with
consistency. The crew members will focus exclusively on executing assigned
work, and gain advantageous position as all the preparatory works involved is
accomplished by concerned planner.
Planning contributes to scheduling also. This scheduling
is done in such a manner that the maintenance department will utilise all their
resources optimally. The lack of planning effort may decrease the number of
work assignments to crew members.
2. Making planners to concentrate on future works as one
of their primary tasks
Principle of planning is forward thinking with a foresight. By preparing
jobs in advance, 
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