Twelve Steps to Maintenance Excellence!

1.Equipment Inventory.

All equipment needs to be identified as to component parts, criticality of equipment, and loss exposure.

2.Critcal parts Inventory.

From the above critical equipment, identify all critical parts, list, order and set up in inventory,

3.Start up procedures.

These would be normal startup procedures that are used, “Monday Morning” or after power outage etc.

4.Emergency procedures.

What to do in the event of, air pressure loss, loss of hydraulic power, power loss, fire, tornado, or any uncontrolled outage.

5.Safe work practices, Lock out Tag out, fall protection.

Paramount to employee safety!

6.On line training/ exposure.

Maintenance employees require working knowledge of the process from an operational point of view.

7.Team work/shift continuity.

Shift schedules must support the company goal and keep the employees well being in mind.

8. PM’s, inspection, planning and execution.

Periodic inspection of operating equipment must be done in a cost-effective manner and required repairs must be scheduled to be completed with minimal loss to production.

Adherence to PM compliance and PM effectiveness is fluid but paramount to success.

9. Maintenance daily work plans.

Maintenance employees must be given a planned list of tasks for the day, these would be scheduled in advance.

10. Scheduled maintenance outages.

These would be planned for “Maintenance Windows” thereby minimizing loss to process and maximizing “Uptime” or equipment availability.

11. TPM.

Institute a modified “total production maintenance program” where equipment operators would become key players in the maintenance organization.

12. Measure to Improve.

Continually measure the performance of the team, criteria or measurement points would depend upon the results required, the only way to improve a process is to measure the results against a set of parameters, and adjust as required to bring about the improvement