Many businesses have to live with both poor equipment reliability, and high maintenance cost. They’d like better reliability, but not at any cost. Fortunately, there is a way to increase equipment reliability economically with the following balanced approach:
- Time based maintenance
- Condition based maintenance
- Run to failure
- Maintaining operations for high reliability requires each of the 3 approaches to maintenance.
The exact strategy will depend on current practices and conditions, but will include elements such as:
- Significant outage investigation system (such as problem solving)
- Criticality based assessment of assets
- Machine and equipment ledgers
- Clean, Inspect, and Tag exercises to stabilize basic conditions, and allow time based maintenance to be effective
- Engagement of both operators and maintenance technicians
- Senior management sponsorship
For a gap analysis, and an outline plan on what benefits a best practice maintenance strategy could do for your business, give us a call
