Work standards are a tool that maintenance managers can apply inannual planning and budgeting, daily planning, scheduling, and workcontrol. Frequently, maintenance managers rely on inherited standards, adapt published standards, or do without. In such cases, they are overlooking a resource, their maintenance management informaton system (mmis), which can be used to develop preliminary work standardsto aid in planning, scheduling, and controlling maintenance resources. Research for this paper was conducted at a major transit system as part of an overall management study of the organization. A methodology using mmis records to establish preliminary work standards fordivision-performed maintenance is presented in this paper. Preliminary standards for the organization are recommended and the analytical results are interpreted. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1266, Urban public transportation research 1990.
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