What’s your goal (what do you want to do)?

Before you can have an effective maintenance function, you have to understand what an”effective maintenance program” means. To do that, you have to have a target. Something that really means something to you and to the senior management in your company. These are the goals of your department. There are several levels of goals: corporate goals, plant goals, your goals. Senior management not only expects you to meet your goals, but to support theirs too. Do you have good, well defined goals?

You have to measure it (You need a control panel)!

Objectives support goals. Your plant manager has objectives and you should have objectives. Your objectives need to be “SMART” (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time limited). Are your’s?

Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are your control panel.

Internal KPI’s measure progress within your department. Your supervisors and planners should all have SMART goals that support yours. Do they?

External KPI’s measure the outside world’s view of you. Is it a good view?

And you have to take care of your friends so they’ll take care of you; Operations, Purchasing, HR all have goals. Do yours support theirs?

You have to have good data (Garbage in, garbage out)

Does the design and use of your workorders and records insure accurate and usable data? You can collect data from many sources:

• PM Workorders
• PdM workorders
• Repair workorders
• MRO stores records
• Planner records
• HR records

But to capture good data, they must make it easy to capture the right data. Do your’s?

Take action based on good information

There are many different reports you can use to understand what is happening in your department.

• PM Workorders
• PdM workorders
• Repair workorders
• MRO stores reports
• Planner’s reports
• Supervisor’s reports
• Manager’s reports

Only use the ones that give you information you can take action on. And make sure they give you information; actionable information, not data. You have enough to do without extra reports to read. Do your reports meet this standard?

We can help (advice, mentoring, service):

MMSI’s alternative:

 We can help by helping you develop an overall approach to managing maintenance that insures you are working on the right things and telling your boss what he needs to know. We can help you succeed.

 We can:

• Help you Assess program effectiveness
• Help you Develop maintenance goals & objectives that mesh with the corporate & plant mission and goals.
• Help you Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you can use to measure your progress.
• Help you Develop Predictive Maintenance (PdM) technologies programs
• Help you Decide what technologies to use.
• Help you Train your folks to get the most out of those technologies
• Help you Design Workorders that capture the information you need from those technologies.
• Help Develop Preventive Maintenance (PM) tasks & schedules
• Help Schedule your PMs so that the workload is realistic
• Help design Workorders that capture the information you need from those tasks.
• Help Develop a planning process for repairs – both routine & emergency
• Help design Workorders that capture the information you need from those repairs.
• Help Develop a comprehensive reporting system (with minimum effort for your people and ease of understanding for you):
• MRO Stores reports
• Planners reports
• Supervisors reports
• Managers reports
• Reports that summarize all of the above in a way that senior management can understand.

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