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How High, How
Far and How Fast -- Assess Your Organization |
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What is the actual added value of maintenance? |
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Beware of
phantom savings |
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Measuring Maintenance Effectiveness: The Bulls
and the Bears
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Getting
Back to Basics Through Benchmarking and KPI
Analysis |
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The
Managing System: How to Get Your Dreams to Work |
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Reliability Program Scorecard |
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Quick tips for understanding and implementing
Key Performance Indicators immediately! |
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Techniques for applying Leading or Lagging
metrics immediately! |
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Developing Performance Indicators for Managing
Maintenance Chapter 1 (1.4 Meg PDF) |
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An Introduction to “The Maintenance Scorecard”
by Daryl Mather
The Maintenance Scorecard is the first book to
seriously tackle the issue of aligning asset
management with other areas of corporate
activity. This is a particularly relevant topic
given the growing importance of the area as a
source of strategic advantages and as a centre
for risk management. More...
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The Business Case for Reliability
by
John Schultz - Allied Service Group, Inc. and
Robert DiStefano - Management Resources Group,
Inc.
“It’s OK to get Excited about Maintenance”
is the introduction we use for every
presentation we give related to maintenance,
reliability, and asset management. The reason
for this is the overwhelming business case
associated with doing maintenance and
reliability right. Asset Management initiatives
have been documented to have Returns on
Investment (ROI) ranging from 4:1 to 50:1. In
fact, many organizations have found that a Total
Equipment Asset Management (TEAM) initiative has
proven to be the best investment that they have
ever made in their facility. In this paper we
will discuss and explore the “Business Case for
Reliability” from several different angles:
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In an effort to become more
competitive, companies have found that
maintenance represents from 15 to 40% of the
total product cost and dollars saved in
maintenance are a cost avoidance. In larger
companies, reducing maintenance expenditures by
$1 million contributes as much to profits as
increasing sales by $3 million. Improving
maintenance and decreasing unnecessary
maintenance expenditures by $1 million is
considerably easier and more likely to occur
than obtaining $3 million in new sales.
In this article,
guidelines are presented for calculating
possible savings that may be achieved by
investing in improved maintenance policies and
practices, including a computerized maintenance
management system.
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Benchmarking Best Practices In Maintenance
Management
Benchmarking, correctly done, can cure
weaknesses in a company's operations.
Incorrectly done, it can undermine an
organization's position in the marketplace.
By Terry
Wireman, Senior Industry Analyst,
GenesisSolutions
A buzzword that
has been getting a lot of attention recently is
benchmarking. What is benchmarking? Is it
a tool or just another program of the month? In
reality, benchmarking is what you choose to make
it. It can be a competitive tool--a cure--or a
program that will damage your company's
competitive position--a curse.
Read the full story
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Courtesy of Industrial Press, publishers
of this and many other fine books on
maintenance management and related
fields.
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MAINTENANCE AUDITS
By: Simon Brissenden, Christer ldhammar,
Alan Wilson (Excerpted from Asset
Maintenance Management by Dr. Alan
Wilson)
It
is well known that the asset maintenance
manager who is allowed to get on and
implement his maintenance strategy and
develop his operation without let or
hindrance is an endangered species -
external influences can cause even the
best laid plans to go astray!
Occasionally it is essential for the
maintenance manager to take a step back
and look at the overall progress being
made; in short to carry out a
maintenance audit. An audit is a more
questioning activity than monitoring
performance indicators. It can include a
review of one or more of the following
four areas:
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Equipment condition and
effectiveness.
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The maintenance processes,
and the procedures and
systems in place.
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The ISO quality system, if
appropriate.
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An improvement project in
isolation from all other
activities.
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Progress on any combination of these may
be judged against a range of landmarks
covering the key maintenance issues and
the quality of their delivery.
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Is
any level of risk acceptable in the workplace?
Can all risk be eliminated? What level of risk
is acceptable? All very interesting questions –
how would you answer them? The US Army requires
a risk assessment to be performed before any
mission. The objective of the risk assessment is
to identify risk and put counter measures in
place to reduce or eliminate known risk to an
acceptable level.
How should a
maintenance organization approach reducing risk
while optimizing the maintenance function?
More...Click here to read
Risk
Assessment for Maintenance (66k pdf)
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Key Performance Indicators -Leading or Lagging
and When to Use Them by Ricky Smith
Initiating
major change, such as moving from a reactive
maintenance operation to one which is proactive
and employs Best Maintenance Practices to
achieve Maintenance Excellence, requires
start-up support from top management. In order
to continue the journey towards Maintenance
Excellence, the continued support from
management will need justification. Upper
management will not be satisfied with statements
like “just wait until next year when you see all
the benefits of this effort.” They will want
something a little more tangible if you are to
gain further commitment from them. You will need
to provide tangible evidence in the form of
objective performance facts.
That’s
where metrics comes in. Metrics is just a term
meaning “to measure” (either a process or a
result). Combining several metrics yields
indicators, which serve to highlight some
condition or highlight a question that we need
an answer to. Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
combine several metrics and indicators to yield
objective performance facts.
More...Click here to read Key Performance
Indicators -Leading or Lagging and When to Use
Them (63k pdf)
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Measuring Overall Craft Effectiveness (OCE)
by
Ralph W. “Pete”
Peters,
The Maintenance Excellence
Institute
What is Overall Craft Effectiveness or OCE? It
is very much like the concept behind the OEE
Factor for the calculation of Overall Equipment
Effectiveness. But OCE applies specifically to
the productivity of craft labor resources.
The future will see third party maintenance
continue to replace in-house maintenance
operations that have priced themselves out of
the marketplace due to low craft labor
productivity, poor service and technical skills,
lack of internal leadership and of course
declining physical asset reliability.
More...Click
here to read
Measuring Overall Craft Effectiveness (OCE)
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