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These metrics can mean falling just short of corporate or production goals and complying with
safety regulations or Service Level Agreements. How would your business landscape change if
you went from 40% efficiency to 60%? What about 80%? What could you do to leverage that
boost in productivity?
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challenge. Effective maintenance programs reflect an organization’s future goals, and integrate
best practices of planning, implementation and evaluation. PM programs contain planning,
scheduling, coordination and reliability support throughout an organization.
World class maintenance programs help organizations improve quality, reduce costs, increase
equipment uptime, increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and more. The focus shifts
from reacting to problems and a “keep it running” ideology to performance analysis and
continuous process improvement.
For example, here’s a few client success stories from those who have implemented PM
programs:
So, what goes into designing a Preventive Maintenance program? To help you get started,
eMaint developed six steps to create an effective, world class Preventive Maintenance
program.
The most effective way to begin developing procedures for PM programs is to start with the
end in mind. What does your company want to accomplish? Define your procedures to align
with organizational goals. For example, many manufacturing organizations focus on improving
work efficiency. This goal helps guide your processes in order to reap benefits such as
reducing equipment downtime, improving work completion rates, and maximizing production
time available per machine. Other organizations want to ensure regulatory compliance. With
this focus, results such as improved planned maintenance percentage, labor tracking and work
history will follow suit.
Another vital step to developing a PM program is to identify asset equipment lists (an inventory
of your fixed assets) and set up asset hierarchical structures. An asset hierarchy is the
relationship between the highest level of equipment and subordinate units, which allows you to
easily identify which assets you can perform maintenance on versus all of your tangible
pieces, parts and/or equipment. Here are a few tips to begin creating an asset hierarchy:
Again, start with the end in mind. Consider what makes equipment valuable or critical to your
organization.
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Make sure your asset hierarchy is unique. Your hierarchical asset structure should not be cut
and pasted from another source. Put a good deal of thought into why it makes sense for your
organization.
For example, look at a building diagram of your asset domain. What natural groupings do
you notice? What is the natural geography that drives your decision making?
Rank assets based on criticality. Ranking assets by criticality helps organizations create asset
hierarchies. Asset Criticality Ranking is a tool to evaluate how asset failures impact company-
wide performance and help organizations prioritize work. What equipment failures would have
the most detrimental to production, fulfilling customer orders, or safety for your organization?
Those are your highest ranking assets.
Crafting job plans will help keep labor organized, controlled and efficient. They offer support to
avoid delays and a head start on other job information for the technicians. An effective job
plan includes:
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Maintenance planning defines the “what” and “how” of labor and materials, and maintenance
scheduling encompasses the “when” and “who.” Accurate planning and scheduling is the most
critical element to ensure a proactive approach to maintenance. In fact, Lifecycle
Engineering found that for every hour of effective planning, the typical return is three hours in
maintenance labor time saved or an equivalent savings in materials and production downtime.
No matter what you want to accomplish by implementing a PM program, you want as many of
your most critical pieces of equipment on a PM schedule as possible. Begin by selecting your
first PM candidate using the data from your asset hierarchy and asset criticality rankings.
Once that piece of equipment is selected, start with the big picture and create a schedule for
the year. List daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual tasks based on
manufacturer recommendations, history of the asset and input from your operations team.
Then, continue this process for all critical assets.
With a better understanding of the most critical tasks at hand for the year, establishing weekly
maintenance plans for your team will not be as daunting a task. Weekly plans will include
Preventive Maintenance work to be completed, outlined procedures, accounted necessary
parts , as well as some flexibility for emergency work, projects or internal or external audits.
Layer this short term schedule within your long term schedule from the step above to end up
with the most thorough PM program. There are a number of principles that will help maximize
your scheduling efforts:
Scheduling Prerequisites
Principle #1: For plans with the LOWEST required skill level, identify:
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Duration of work
Principle #2: Remember that schedules and job priorities are of the utmost importance, so
take time and effort to outline them
Consider scheduling multiple jobs for the same crew on the same system
Principle #4: Schedule for every work hour of the percentage of wrench time available with
flexibility for emergency work
Principle #5: Establish a crew leader, and assign them responsibilities such as:
Coordination of resources
Preventive Maintenance programs are only as good as those performing the work. If your
employees do not know how to perform the work or cannot understand how these changes
will help make their job easier, programs are more likely to fail.
Dedicating time for training staff on PM tasks can be vitally important in ensuring the success
of a PM program. Offering training will help employees understand the “how” and “when” of
maintenance. Employees learn to perform functions correctly, eliminating time-consuming trial
and error, and preventing costly repairs due to incomplete or ineffective inspections.
Keeping employees in the loop not just with the “how” and “when,” but also the “why” of
preventive maintenance is crucial. Clearly communicate and demonstrate the benefits of PM
program. It is also important to promote innovative ideas, celebrate successes, and involve
team members in designing of the program. You can also create incentives for compliance and
share positive results to engage your team.
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maintain equipment condition, reduce maintenance costs, downtime and so much more. Your
PM program coupled with work scheduling software found within a CMMS can help spark
serious quantifiable results, such as:
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