Maintenance activities should be done following strict procedures to ensure correct and continuous functioning of tools, equipments or machines at client site.
Main objectives of the maintenance are to have working systems with very limited failures to warrantee process efficiency and get the huge expected benefits from the tools and equipments that the company has purchased and invested in.
What are the main steps in the maintenance approach and how to get an efficient maintenance methodology?
STEP 1: ORGANIZE…
The first important step will be to organize the maintenance activities inside the company and decide about :
1. Maintenance Investment:
- What will be planned in term of investment for the maintenance
activities concerning human resources, tools or equipments?
2. Maintenance scheduling and actions:
- When should we conduct specific maintenance work?
- What are the preventives actions that need to be organized?
- What are the different diagnostics that need to be realized to avoid
possible problems?
3. Maintenance strategy:
- How to conduct the maintenance at site?
- Would the maintenance area treated by external sub contractors?
- How to organize the collaboration between subcontractors and onsite
maintenance responsible to warrantee a good communication and
efficient partnership?
STEP 2: ACT…
The second important step in the maintenance activity will be to put in actions the maintenance methodology chosen by the company and ensure the following work:
1.Inspection & Control activities:
- To have a clear view on how the systems are performing at a specific
scheduled moment.
- Achieve diagnostics, check, note and correct possible alarms.
This part could be done either remotely or at site through organized
visits.
2. Regulars maintenances activities following a strict schedule:
- Preventive maintenance:
To replace preventively specific parts and avoid possible system failures.
- Corrective maintenance:
To fix specific problem when an expected failure will happen at site. The corrective maintenance strategy should be well organized to ensure that the defective problems will be treated very quickly and will not engender a long equipment non availability that will be very costly to the client.
STEP 3: Anticipate!
The last step in the maintenance activity will be to improve and modernize the equipments part following relevant schedule milestones to:
- Anticipate possible problems that will occur if the equipment reaches
its end life or becomes obsolete. This could be done either by:
- Adapt the equipment or renovate it deeply to ensure its
continuous correct functioning with time.
- Installing a brand new system to start a new cycle life for
the equipment and warrantee it long term functioning for long
period
- Use latest technologies and developments that are getting the brand
new equipments and that will provide better efficiency, security and
handling simplicity for the user.
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