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What is the problem?
You need to improve production plant predictability – customers need their quality goods on time; you’re losing too much time (and money) to unexpected machinery failures.
You need to improve plant availability, drive organisational and individual accountability, know when items of IT, plant or machinery will be taken off line to maintain replace or repair, a planned schedule to enable you meet your customers requirements, show you can manage the risks associated with the machinery you run and maybe reduce your insurance.
You don’t have a flow to your maintenance process, have planned maintenance – or you do but no-one works to the plan.
 What is it?
Work Management is a sequential and systematic approach to include all your IT, or plant, or machinery and manage the maintenance, replacement or repair. Not necessarily IT based but dependent on the size of your organisation, a maintenance database or spreadsheets are pretty much essential.
A routine review of the condition of the assets is an important first step, then an integrated prioritisation to include funding availability and timescales. Sounds so easy!
An annual review in line with business planning and budget development is essential.
Supported by product development, business development and customer needs, the cycle plan will be able to accommodate repair and replace assets within a timeframe that meets resource and demand requirements.
Will it be different?
Just because a piece of equipment gets maintained properly in a planned way won’t be the end of the story. Consider the extra time skilled people will have when they are not venting their frustration at lack of materials, permits, skills! Not to mention that they and you will enjoy coming to work more. Consider too the reduction in overtime and the change of culture. People will be more able to do the good job they always set out to do when they come to work and, the staff will have the right skills at the right level to do the job they are planned to do.
What will we do?
An initial review of your existing maintenance support systems, and a report on what we find and what we recommend.
Then we will:
Provide an outline strategy to direct your energies.
Provide the tools to set you up for success including scoping and project management of the change.
Work with you to build accountability into your management processes.
Work with you to build the database information you need.
Set up appropriate metrics to support the accountability and progress management
Meet regularly to guide, mentor and coach
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