Are you world-class?

How well do you compare with world-class competitive organizations?

Are you keeping pace?

Are you behind the pack or are you setting the standards?

This is an interesting way to look at your situation.

The column on the left shows Reactive at the top and Proactive at the bottom.

The red arrow is starting at an 80% Breakdown (Reactive) situation on the left column.

Conversely, the green arrow is starting at a 20% Preventive (Proactive) situation.

On the right side, it is reversed.

The Column on the right side shows Proactive at the top and Reactive at the bottom.

The objective, as this chart shows, is to get the green arrow to move from the 20% Preventive (Proactive) point on the left to the 80% Preventive (Proactive) point on the right side. To move the company from a breakdown (Reactive) focused environment to a planned or preventive environment (Proactive) over a period of time.

A well-implemented proven Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) will facilitate the process as the work focus is placed on the Preventive (Proactive) system, forcing the Breakdowns (Reactive) to be reduced.

The goal is to achieve a world-class maintenance norm.

Your Situation

This is another interesting chart to depict where you are currently.

I am not necessarily suggesting that you are operating a 20% Preventive or Proactive point. (Note the green arrow). You may be registering at a higher point than that but regardless of where you fit on the scale, the goal is still to achieve that world-class norm of 80% Preventive work orders processed.

This chart depicts the left column as a percentage of hours spent and the right column as maximum cost, which is on an increasing scale. The red arrow indicates that this environment is operating at 80% breakdown and the arrow identifies that this will incur maximum costs.

The red circle contains a list of all the ugly things that go with this type of situation.

• Expensive Maintenance
• Mediocre Equipment Performance
• Inadequate Effectiveness of Resources
• Inferior Company and Department Image
• No Management Information 
  • Reporting on anything is a nightmare and costs numerous hours of work.
• Poor Compliance and Quality
  • Failed audits and reject product
• Safety and Environmental Risk
  • Accidents and spills
• Excessive Breakdowns
• High Downtime
• Limited Production Capacity
• Poor Inventory  Control
  • Unknown stock availability
• Excessive Slack Time
  • Wasted resources
• Costs out of Control

Who wants to work in this kind of environment? We need to get rid of these or at least minimize the extent of them. It will take time and effort but the reward is well worthwhile.

So What is the Solution?

The Solution

We need to replace all those negative ugly red items with these much more attractive and acceptable green ones.

As we progress our system over a period of time and place more and more emphasis on our Proactive approach (the green arrow), the items in the green circle will start to start to increase and become more apparent and this will force the ugly items in the red circle to diminish and be minimized.

We will start to achieve all the things we want to achieve:

• Cost Savings
• Maximize ROI (Return on Investment)
• Improved Efficiencies
• Improved Availability and Reliability
• Improved Safety and Quality
• Environmental Acceptance
• Maximized Asset Performance
• Increased Capacity
• Maintenance Excellence
• Operational Scheduling
• Industry Compliance
• High Performance and Image
• Management By Exception

The analytics of our Maintenance system will be able to chart and monitor the progress as we move forward and how exciting it gets when we see and show physical graphs and improvement trends. The whole ambiance of our work will change significantly. Everyone wants to work with success and to be able to see and be part of the improvement trend.

Summary

So how well do you compare with world-class competitive organizations? Are we keeping pace? Are you behind the pack or are you setting the standards?

Let’s get that green arrow growing and watch the red one diminish and start to enjoy the fruit and huge rewards of achieving world-class maintenance standards.

Make maintenance excellence your goal.

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