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I. FEATURES OF MACHINERY MAINTENANCE IN They will be reflected, for example. in losses of quality and
MANUFACTURING PLANTS productivity. Most of these deficiencies are manifested in form
of problems associated with devices, such as failure or
Basic activities of companies management include care
problems related to maintenance of corrective actions, the
about basic resources. Each manufacturing plant wants its
right to maintenance, which is all too often regarded as the
production systems and equipment to operate and manage in a
cause of all problems that plague most of factories,
reliable manner. The fact is that in today's competitive
establishments and corporations.
environment when producers want to maintain their position
on market, they have to exploit every possible advantage. One
When the machine does what it is and when it is,
mean, through which companies seek to gain a competitive
productivity and business profitability is maximized. One of
advantage is lean manufacturing. Many firms develop an
the most important aspects of well-organized production is
initiative to achieve what the best results in the field of
machinery maintenance. The term maintenance shall mean the
maintenance and reliability is. Unfortunately, only a few
“combination of all technical, administrative and managerial
companies attach the importance of synergy, i.e. the strength
actions during item life cycle in order to maintain or restore
of the combination of a lean manufacturing and maintenance .
such a state in which it can perform a required function”[7].
The best approach seems to focus on lean manufacturing ,
Maintenance job is no longer limited only by immediate
response to special events, overcoming problems of using
In conclusion, we would like to express thanks for the support of the
projects SGS-2012-063 titled “Integrated design of manufacturing system as multiple organs and excessive overtime. If there are processes
metaproduct with a multidisciplinary approach and with using elements of and maintenance procedures appropriately chosen and
virtual reality“ and project NEXLIZ – CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0038, which is subsequently adopted actions done well, we can minimize the
cofinanced by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech
Republic. loss and production becomes stableagain. Production capacity
Ing. Peter Poór, PhD. is with Department of Industrial Engineering and will be fully and consistently high quality products will
Management, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14 Plzeň, become the norm. This condition you say, "excellent care"
Czech Republic, E-mail: poorpeter@gmail.com, Phone: +420 377 638 401
Fax: +420 377 638 402
Doc. Ing. Michal Šimon, Phd. is with Department of Industrial Engineering But maintenance of machinery can often be quite costly. It
and Management, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14 Plzeň, will be appreciated that the actual cost savings and
Czech Republic, E-mail: simon@kpv.zcu.cz, Phone: +420 377 638 400 Fax:
+420 377 638 402 profitability can be achieved only by combining the reliability,
Survey
Inspection
CMMS
Generate III. MAINTENANCE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
Corrective
WOrk
Action
Orded
In the last century, various approaches have been developed
such as to perform maintenance in order to ensure attainment
or overrun product life. To prevent product failure (reactive
Close maintenance), we can utilize methods of preventive
Work
Order maintenance (switching device until it goes wrong), predictive
maintenance or reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and
Figure 1 CMMS functionalities total productive maintenance (TPM). Maintenance strategy is
a set of rules under which various maintenance activities and
II. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS plans are carried out with their time evolution.
Activities and responsibilities can be divided into two
categories :
BM
• Breakdown maintenance
• The primary functions
o Maintenance of existing facilities PM1
• Preventive maintenance
o Maintenance of existing facilities, buildings
and land.
PM2
• Productive maintenance
o Inspection of equipment and lubrication.
o Production and distribution of energy.
o Alterations and installation of new equipment. RCM
• Reliability centered maintenance
are functions that require daily work and
• Secondary functions TPM
• Total productive maintenance
o Storage
o Plant protection Figure 3 Machinery maintenance evolution [1]
o Waste disposal
o Insurance Administration
o other services…. Nowadays two basic strategies of maintenance are
assigned to functions for reasons of expediency, know- how distinguished:
or other . • Proactive maintenance - represents a strategy to prevent
the emergence of disorders utilizing corrective action,
Secondary functions are maintenance, for example, repair of where the action is directed to the source of the fault.
equipment (large or small) and conducting technical and Also includes preventative method for predictive
economic records of the state machinery and equipment [1]. maintenance.
• Subsequent maintenance - includes actions that
Basicly, CMMS takes its function from 3 big areas (Fig. 2). correspond with fault condition of the device.
Executing in case where it is not possible respectively
appropriate select another form of maintenance [2].
Savings potencial
User-friendliness
Based on the evaluation results of our research, which took The advantages of the implementation ofcomputerized
place in the form of an extensive survey, it is evident that the maintenance management system includes the following
incorporation of a system for computer-aided maintenance picture: [6]
sector finds its justification not only for easier monitoring and
data archiving. Among the greatest benefits from the use of • Maintaining optimum device performance by
specialized systems, according to respondents affects the level reducing downtime and resulting in a longer lifetime
of inventory of spare parts. Further, the positive effect of of the device.
reliability increasing of final products and reducing total cost • Detection of imminent problems rather than occurs
of production are important. an error , whereby it is less failures and customer
complaints .
Also, fulfillment of customer specific needs is an important • Achieve a higher level of planned maintenance
criterion. It is caused by a fact, that every production system is activities that allow more efficient use of personal
specific. Most companies choose between implementation of resources.
an existing CMMS system or developing a new one, specific • Influencing enables better inventory management
for their needs. Main criterion for CMMS system choosing are anticipation and purchase of spare parts for remove
shown in the graph below: the deficiency and minimize existing stocks .
• Maintaining optimum performance of the device by
reducing downtime and resulting in a longer lifetime
of the device.
According to a survey in A.. T. Kearney and Industry Week VI. TYPICAL CMMS FUNCTIONS
[8] 558 companies that currently use computerized Most CMMS consists of a set of modules which are
maintenance management system , exhibited an average of : interconnected to obtain the best possible functionality and at
• 28.3 % increase in the productivity of maintenance, the same time user-friendly operation and control. Some of the
• 20.1 % reduction in equipment downtime , plurality of possible functions CMMS are :
• 19.4 % savings in the cost of materials, • Improvements of management and preventive
• 17.8 % decrease in inventory maintenance and repair, maintenance,
• the average payback period was 14.5 months . • Optimizing inventory of spare parts ,
• Complete review of assets
• History data in one place ,
CMMS Key benefits • Statistics ,
• Linking to other systems and software ,
• Openness in communication with any other IS today
Device accesibility and in the future ,
• Three-layer architecture ,
• The default setting for maintenance repairs, alterations
and maintenance ,
Productivity • Unlimited number of users,
• Hotline, training, system support,
• Creation of orders (maintenance, repair)
Property control • Planning the work to professional level,
• Monitoring capacity maintenance workers,
• Recognition of done work
• Regulations work for repeated maintenance,
Production quality inspections,
• Budgets for equipment and monitoring their
performance,
• Recording disorders, outages,
Environmental controls • Monitoring equipment downtime,
Figure 7 CMMS key benefits • Analysis of the causes and kinds of disorders to parts of
the machine,
While computerized maintenance management systems will • Cost to order a device with linking to external
pass a long way toward automating and improving, it is information system
necessary to overcome some common pitfalls. These include • Inspection trip for business,
the following : • PDA interface,
• Incorrect choice supplier of computer maintenance • and many others [10].
management system. All these are specific decisions
Of course, the functions are different for different kinds of rescheduling maintained. The plan can be printed in different
CMMS as each new system are changed and they conform to forms and each action can be printed work order.Stepped
the needs and requirements of customers. maintenance is that the higher level in itself always involves a
degree lower. What to do during maintenance can be written
as free formatted text. Each type of maintenance can be
VII. CHOOSING A GOOD CMMS assigned to professions such as the capacity to participate
therein (and possibly write even more workers) and what stock
A good CMMS software should provide : items (spare parts) need to be prepared. Repair means action
• Organization of all maintenance information in a without repetition.
clear database
• Comfortable calendar scheduling preventive In a good CMMS, you can define the individual cost
maintenance with possibility of manual intervention centers, enterprise and then watch them on overall
and accessories maintenance costs. Each machine card machine can be
assigned to one cost center. Definition of cost centers is
• Print work orders and their easy conversion into
hierarchical, ie starting from the highest point of the hierarchy
finished maintenance events , alarms
(the company), and it is subordinated to define cost centers.
• Complete overview of carried work upkeep (ISO
audit), repairs and costs
Similarly, as cost centers can be defined hierarchical dial
• Capacity utilization statistics and other publications
placement machines. By placing the machine easy to find
for improving the management and maintenance
when you know at least in which the hall is located in the
planning
business.
• Operate in local or network version. Installation is
simple and does not necessarily require
implementation assistance.
• Access protected by passwords and access rights for
each user, defined by the administrator. Access
rights extend to the individual machines.
• Interconnecting the states of spare parts in your ERP
system and programmed specific functions and add
data to your specifications
Spare parts and other materials for the maintenance are also
assigned to maintenance. When planning status is checked,
when writing of maintenance is confirmed consumption. Stock
Figure 8 CMMS called EAM2 with scheduled maintenance maintenance usually results in the central stock holding. When
writing maintenance is then automatically creates a material
issue slip material consumed assigned to maintenance.
The machine is a base on database maintenance. Machines
card includes everything you need to know. Outside the
If there is a machine failure, it is entered in the list of
predefined data you can take advantage of unlimited text note,
messages to request repair. Janitors have immediate insight
assign photos and even instructions for use. These cards
and action prioritization can handle. Reports can be executed
access the plan as well as the history of maintenance and
either by writing to registers repair costs, or simply a
repairs.
description of what was done.
Planning is essential for the maintenance period, a tolerance
Printingmodule can filter required printouts according to the
period last performed maintenance. Scheduled events can be
time limits and according to other conditions. Filters can be
manually moved to other data and transfer of remains when
preset and save the next time you select just the right one, you functional predictive maintenance program:
do not need to write again! • savings of 8% to 12%. Depending on the type of device
to access reactive maintenance and material conditions
Software solution for maintenance management finds can achieve savings of 30% to 40%. Average savings in
application in wide range of industrial fields. These are mainly the industry after the start of term predictive
automotive manufacturing, engineering, food, electronics and maintenance program using:
consumer goods production, which produces small series, bulk • Return on investment: up to 10 times,
and custom. • reduced maintenance costs: 25% to 30%
• reduce the number of errors: 70% to 75%
This is mostly represented by chemical, metallurgical, • reduce downtime: 35% to 45%
machinery and vehicle traffic. In purchase of these systems • increase production 20% to 25%.
show interest especially large companies, where processes are
• provides increased service life and availability of
complex and their management and maintenance needs to be
components.
carried out by a large number of employees.
• provides preventive remedies.
• reflected in a reduction in equipment downtime or
process.
VIII. CONCLUSION
• reduces the cost of parts and labor.
There are many advantages of using a predictive • integrates technical diagnostics in maintenance
maintenance program. A well managed program of predictive management
maintenance would eliminate catastrophic equipment failure.
• provides improved product quality.
Staff then will be able to schedule maintenance activities,
• improves the safety of workers and the environment.
minimize or eliminate overtime costs. Inventory parts or
• increases employee morale.
equipment can be minimalized, because there is no need to
order parts in advance to support the anticipated claims on • increases energy savings.
maintenance. The equipment will be operated at optimal • it is reflected in the estimated 8% to 12% cost savings
levels, thus it also saves energy costs and increased that may result from a predictive maintenance program.
measurement device reliability.
Another side of using predictive maintenance are initial
Our studies have estimated that a properly functioning costs. The initial costs of implementing this type of program
predictive maintenance program can provide savings of 8% to can be expensive. Great piece of equipment requires
12% during the actual use of the program strategy of expenditures in excess of $ 50,000. And training personnel for
preventive maintenance. Depending on the device, depending efficient use of technology and predictive maintenance
on the approach of reactive maintenance and material procedures would involve another financial resources.
conditions, could easily achieve savings of 30% to 40%.
Start of a predictive maintenance program requires
understanding the needs of enterprise predictive
maintenanceand steps to be taken. To make this work, it is
also necessary to have committed both management and
whole personnel and company organization.
Disadvantages:
• provides preventive remedies.
• increase of investment on diagnostic equipment
• increased of investment on staff training
• easy sees potential savings
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In conclusion, we would like to express thanks for the
support of the projects SGS-2012-063 titled“Integrated design
of manufacturing system as metaproduct with a
multidisciplinary approach and with using elements of virtual
reality“ and project NEXLIZ – CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0038, which
is co-financed by the European Social Fund and the state
budget of the Czech Republic.
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