Executive Summary
Summary
| In a 480 minute day in a typical heavy maintenance situation a typical maintenance worker will spend: Receiving Instructions = 24 minutes Obtaining tools and materials = 57 minutes Travel to and from job (both with and without tools and materials) = 72 minutes Coordination delays = 38 minutes Idle at job site = 24 minutes Late starts and early quits = 24 minutes Authorized breaks and relief = 48 minutes Excess personal time (extra breaks, phone calls, smoke breaks, slow return from lunch and breaks, etc) = 24 minutes Subtotal of what we call non-productive and marginally productive = 312 minutes non productive Direct actual work accomplished (as a percentage of the whole day) = 168 minutes working |