Reliability and Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance Development through Preventive Maintenance Optimization

Most companies are stuck with inefficient and ineffective preventive maintenance strategies and programs.  This current state leaves plant and facility managers asking, “Who PM’d this last?”

Our approach to breathing life in to exhausted PM plans that return little for the effort is the revitalization process of Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO).  Through the PMO process, your assets will now receive the best strategic proactive maintenance attention and strategies will be developed to address chronic failures and equipment issues.

Typical results show an average of 20% less in off-line PM time requirements; netting more operational time.  Additionally, PMs will be focused on failure modes and not failures; resulting in the identification of failures in the process of failing with time to plan and schedule corrective maintenance.

Creating Predictive Maintenance Strategies

Predictive Maintenance is expensive. Contracting this service out is costly, so is supporting it in-house.  The worst way to adopt a predictive approach is to think that you ‘have to.’  The compelling angle is to develop a strategy that clearly lays out the path to Predictive Maintenance (PdM) as the best means to determine equipment and component conditions.

Our approach is to determine the current proactive maturity of an organization and determine when and where predictive technologies best fit.  In addition to developing the strategy to deploy this technical thinking, we also help clients develop a scope of work and evaluate potential PdM suitors; if the service is to be contracted out.

Lean Manufacturing and Lean Maintenance

Value Added vs. Non-Value Added.  Our approach in evaluating systems and processes (even maintenance activities) is to conduct a product process flow and/or a value stream map.  Once the current state is clearly identified, then the fun begins.  Where can the client’s talents be better used than to be negatively impacted by the traditional seven forms of waste:

• Over Production
• Waiting
• Transporting
• Over Processing
• Inventory
• Excess Motion
• Defects

Overall Equipment Reliability

Reliability, is an equipment-centric definition, and has to mean that the machine does what it’s supposed to do, when it’s supposed to do it, for as long as it’s supposed to do it.  With this street definition in mind, equipment reliability has to be gauged in MTBF, or Mean Time Between Failure.

Our approach is to developed extremely passionate clients bent of increasing the MTBF of an asset and its components.

Maintenance and Reliability Process Development

There are 10 primary maintenance processes and 28 primary storeroom processes.  To be consistent and consistently successful, the maintenance and storeroom organizations must follow a process designed to ‘lead’ to excellence.  To that end, Maintenance Innovators, Inc., has developed templates for each of these processes.

Our niche is using these templates as a guide, and tailoring effective processes to meet your capabilities and culture.  A process is designed to give us a clear and efficient route to what we want to accomplish.  This means a process has to be documented (written down) and everyone trained to that process.  Measures have to be in place to help guide associates along the path.

This is what we do!

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

World-Class levels for maintenance planning and scheduling dictate that to reach this high-water mark, your organization should return efforts that 95% of all your maintenance activities are ‘planned’ in advance (there is a definition as to what ‘planned’ means) and that >90% of your maintenance schedule is complied with, on time.  Unplanned and unscheduled work is 3-4 times more expensive and unreliable.  We don’t do our best work in a crisis, we do our most creative work.  We don’t want creative work.

We build high performing maintenance planning and scheduling processes.  We help to vet, train, and grow exceptional planners and schedulers.  This is fundamentally the most important job in maintenance and reliability management.  The planner’s #1 job is to increase the utilization of the maintenance workforce.

Maintenance and Reliability Strategic Planning

Be honest.  You don’t have a maintenance and reliability strategy.  Not to worry, you’re right there with everyone else.  This is a significant and paralyzing issue with manufacturing and facilities practices around the world.  We just don’t have a real strategy to build the highest level of executable maintenance and reliability.

We deploy a very basic and repeatable process to developing, fielding, and coaching to a successful maintenance and reliability strategy.  We start with a comprehensive audit of abilities and opportunities.  That is followed up with a strategy meeting where we deploy the Balanced Score Card tool. 

In short, our approach is guaranteed to link corporate financial and performance objectives with product and service creation and continued maintenance and reliability support.  It’s effective, tried, and very powerful.

Maintenance and Reliability Auditing

Be honest.  You don’t have a maintenance and reliability strategy.  Not to worry, you’re right there with everyone else.  This is a significant and paralyzing issue with manufacturing and facilities practices around the world.  We just don’t have a real strategy to build the highest level of executable maintenance and reliability.

We deploy a very basic and repeatable process to developing, fielding, and coaching to a successful maintenance and reliability strategy.  We start with a comprehensive audit of abilities and opportunities.  That is followed up with a strategy meeting where we deploy the Balanced Score Card tool. 

In short, our approach is guaranteed to link corporate financial and performance objectives with product and service creation and continued maintenance and reliability support.  It’s effective, tried, and very powerful.

Maintenance Training Strategy Development

Most organizations begin to feel like the base-ball farm team for the big leagues.  Your company spends the time and training to get skilled workers up to a level of competence and they end up leaving to another company; taking their talents (that you paid for) with them.  Does this describe your circumstance?

What if you don’t train them and they stay?

Our approach to maintenance training is to develop a complete listing of what a skilled worker needs to know to work in your operation.  From that, we assess how well the workers know how to perform the tasks that we’ve outlined together.

To complete the initial work, a gap analysis is conducted and reported.  This (the gap) is what we need our training program to ‘close,’ and this takes time and a structured approach.

Our training development strategy concludes with a step by step plan to close this knowledge gap.  Here’s a hint:  this isn’t just for maintenance, it is just as applicable for operators.

Call or email now and let us work with you as a valued partner to build maintenance and reliability that delivers.  Your first step is a call away.