MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT
Supporting you with
Tailored, innovative maintenance improvement solutions
Whether you head up a maintenance team, are a maintenance manager, responsible for maintenance planning or an engineer - improving takes flexibility. There has to be a willingness on all sides to think along new lines of maintenance improvement techniques if you want to improve your maintenance operations.
We can help support you with all areas of maintenance improvement, including:
Restructuring asset base, particularly useful for multi site portfolios enabling comparison and standardisation
Cleansing of spare parts data
Choosing and implementing new or improving existing CMMS systems
Cleansing data that goes through the CMMS to ensure it provides accurate output
Establish system hierarchy for CMMS/software
Support with new preventative and predictive maintenance regimes
Effective spare parts inventory management, processes and stocks
Performance dashboard and KPI’s to drive continuous improvements
Contract management and permit software selection
Improving maintenance effectiveness to reduce costs is achieved through a structured approach, technology tools and training and coaching of maintenance teams.
No matter which type of maintenance practices, processes and systems you currently have on your site, improvements can be made with a tailored, innovative maintenance improvement plan.
Are you looking for new ways to improve maintenance?
There are many tried and tested methods to improving maintenance practices but many are time and labour intensive. Smart Asset Maintenance use our 30 years industry experience together with the newest, most innovative technology tools to help you create a new maintenance improvement plan. A plan that is clear, concise and simple to follow. A plan that will provide the improvement you need to meet your targets.
The rewards of improved maintenance processes
Effective maintenance planning, scheduling and maintenance work management is critical if you want to take back control over your maintenance activities. Yet implementing an effective maintenance improvement plan is not an easy task, particularly if you are already operating in a reactive operational environment and constantly dealing with the possible failure of equipment. But help is at hand...
How we can support you with your maintenance improvement
Working with you, we can help you to reduce maintenance costs and improve the reliability and productivity of your maintenance workforce and your equipment by:
Conducting a detailed assessment of your critical assets, current maintenance activities and Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) using our in-house tool called AMIS.
Following careful and thorough consideration of your current situation, making calculated recommendations based on the findings of the assessment.
Clearly defining maintenance work management, planning and scheduling processes, and documenting and reporting on these with simple flow charts.
Working with your management and maintenance team to gain consensus and ownership regarding new maintenance processes.
Providing training at all levels of your organisation to ensure that everyone understands, not only the detail of the processes, but why they need to be followed.
Working with your production and operations managers and maintenance supervisors to ensure that they are equally committed to making the maintenance improvement plan and processes work.
Providing on-the-job coaching and mentoring for your planners, supervisors and engineers as the processes are implemented.
Assisting you in refining and improving the processes, and overcoming barriers to their implementation.
Monitoring compliance, and measuring the benefits obtained from a more effective maintenance plan.
Assist with a culture of continuous improvement so that your organisation continues to assess, measure and drive maintenance improvements.
Reduce costs and increase uptime.
Are you ready to achieve more efficient maintenance practices? To find out more about how we can help you establish a robust maintenance improvement programme contact us for an obligation-free discussion.
Frequently asked questions:
What is continuous improvement?
Continuous improvement is a company culture that encourages all employees to look for ways to enhance the business's operations. This includes suggesting ideas to improve efficiencies, evaluating current processes, and finding opportunities to cut unproductive work.
What is the best type of maintenance?
Reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance or reliability centred maintenance are the 4 main maintenance programmes. However, there are many different approaches that you can mix and match, depending on your assets, your industry, and the size and experience of your maintenance team. The bottom line, there is "no one size fits all" approach to maintenance. To develop am effective maintenance strategy you have to evaluate and weigh the unique benefits and shortcomings of each strategy, depending on what assets you're working with, what stage of the reliability journey your organisation is at, and the impact of downtime at your facility.
What is the difference between preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance?
The main difference between these two maintenance methods is that preventive maintenance is scheduled on a regular basis, while predictive maintenance is scheduled as needed, based on the asset's current condition. Both approaches rely heavily on data to guide decisions but in different ways. A preventive maintenance (or preventative maintenance) looks at industry averages, checks recommendations from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and understanding of best practices. Whereas, a predictive maintenance program uses an asset's actual utilisation and current condition to decide when to perform a maintenance task.
We can support your ongoing maintenance improvement programme.
Whatever maintenance regime you follow, we would love to have the opportunity to understand the challenges that you are facing and help you to achieve your maintenance goals.
An obligation-free discussion with one of our consultants is the best place to start!