Maintenance Process
Maintenance Process Solutions:
You can't get Lean without first being Reliable!
At the same time that production improvement initiatives such as Lean demand greater Reliability from our equipment and processes, they also require that we do so at a lower cost than in the past. In other words, the Maintenance organization must also become lean! This is especially a challenge for companies in which the Maintenance Process is thought of more as an "event", (...the machine breaks down... Poof! Maintenance appears, fixes the problem. Poof! They are gone). In these cases there is little more they can do to become "Leaner" than to reduce the labor force itself (sometimes to Operations), reduce maintenance MRO, or cut other costs.
Maintenance Process Solutions allow the Maintenance organization to become Lean by optimizing the process of how Maintenance is done. They focus on improving the process of how the Maintenance organizations provide reliability to the plant or site. They include not only the process of Maintenance, but all the other support functions below it. These are depicted at the right side of the Reliability block on the figure above.
- Complete Maintenance Work Management Process Optimization
- Maintenance Planning & Scheduling - Featuring the Work Management (Planning & Scheduling) Simulation, an interactive business simulation
- CMMS/EAMS Set-up, Upgrade & Optimization
- Maintenance Spare Parts & Materials Management Processes
- Overall Maintenance Effectiveness - KPI used to show the increase in "flow" through the Maintenance Process
- New Equipment Specification Development - Building your Reliability, Maintainability, Accessibility standards into new equipment
Because of our diverse background, LAI can customize a Maintenance & Reliability strategy to fit your needs regardless of the size of your organization, the stage of your efforts, or the industry you service!
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