Whilst each organisation has their own unique characteristics, at EnterpriseIS we believe that the “building blocks”of a good maintenance organisation are the same and when implemented effectively will lead to high performing assets. Like all good processes, it starts with solid foundations, which is the culture, work processes, basic preventive maintenance activities and the implementation of the (CMMS). This ensures that maintenance activities are aligned to business goals, roles are aligned with capabilities and work processes delivering efficiencies.
Next is what we call the “low hanging fruit”, which is the first level of improvement that enables your maintenance team to move away from reactive maintenance and improve reliability of your equipment. Through the development of sound planning and scheduling activities, establishing defect elimination programs and implementation of condition monitoring (where applicable), equipment reliability will significantly improve.
Moving upwards, the next step is “Taking control of maintenance,” which means working to reduce costs, further defect elimination and move towards predicting failure. This step will enable the maintenance organisation to further improve reliability, whilst also improving the cost of maintenance and returns to the organisation.
Optimising plant performance, which enables your maintenance team to lock in plant reliability levels through the continuing reduction in defects, improvements in critical spares management and managing process bottlenecks.
Finally, through the implementation of continuous improvement programs, asset management becomes an integrated activity incorporating accurate data from multiple sources, continuous analysis of information and adjustment and decision making in this stage is “real time” data collection and analysis
EnterpriseIS has assisted clients from a broad range of industries to develop and implement each of these steps with their maintenance teams to help them deliver cost effective maintenance which supports operational outcomes since 2009. Get in touch with us on our website https://www.enterpriseis.com.au/contact-us/or alternatively you can contact us at our office on 02 4271 7774.
