Integration - focuses on the balanced application of reliability initiatives.  It also provides the opportunity to perform informed maintenance tasks based on better understanding of asset operational characteristics.  The objective is to have reliability improvement become a total comprehensive initiative which takes into consideration the interdependencies associated with the Work Control and Performance Tools facets.  Integration provides the path leading towards breakthrough improvements in reliability.  Elements of this facet include;

·          Consolidation of Islands

·          Effectiveness Improvement

·          Streamlining Processes

·          Cost Optimization

·          Best Practices

Over 50% of the Reliability Initiatives that are not reaping the anticipated ROI due to lack of Integration.  Their organization views this as a maintenance initiative, their IT department views the implementation of a CMMS system as a IT initiative, or the CMMS implementation is viewed as an accounting or purchasing initiative.  Production has a leasing mentality when it comes to the ownership of their equipment and does not even give Maintenance access to critical manufacturing information or historical process data.  If this describes your plant, history would tell us to take the worst case ROI and put a negative sign in front of it and take the best case and divide it by 4.  Integration is difficult to put a dollar figure on, but lack of integration has consistently and historically cost greatly.