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The Business Case For Reliability (Page 3)

The 4 quadrants of the diamond are:

1.        Work Control Tools (efficiency) such as CMMS, Parts Lists, and Planning and Scheduling

2.        Work Performance Tools (effectiveness) such as PM, PdM, Precision Skills and RCFA.

3.        Integration Tools – such as integration of islands, cost optimization and standardizing on best practices.

4.        Sustainability Tools – such as knowledge transfer, communications, and metrics.

The paper will focus on example costs and benefits from each of the four quadrants.  However, these are just examples of factors that should go into a complete business case, for a complete list of business case considerations, e-mail John Schultz by clicking here.

Work Control Tools consist of all the administrative tools that are designed to control maintenance work and enhance worker productivity.  Elements under Work  Control Tools include;

·          ERP/EAMS/CMMS

·          Planning and Scheduling

·          Workflow Analysis

·          Information Systems

·          Resources

·          Data

The benefits of a well designed and deployed set of Work Control Tools are optimized worker productivity, relieving skilled people from mundane and time-wasting activities, and freeing them up for more value-added technical activities on equipment.  In other words, increased wrench-time frees up resources to work on Work Performance Initiatives.

Case in Point from Doc Palmer's book, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:

  • Three Persons without "Planning" => 3 X 35% = 105%
  • Two Persons with "Planning" =>1X0% + 2 X 55% = 110%
  • Break Even is 3 Persons
  • 55%/35% = 1.57 (57% Improvement)
  • One planner can plan for 20 to 30 persons
  • 30 persons X 1.57 = 47 persons (17 extra persons)
  • Presume $34/hour
  • 17 person X $34/hr X 2080 hr/yr => $1,202,240 per year

Properly implemented Planning and Scheduling increases worker productivity, which frees them up to work on other, more value-added activities.

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