Maintenance Strategy Key Goals
Includes strategies that:
- Achieve substantial cost savings using the Smarter Maintenance approach.
- Improve efficiencies allowing increased availability of plant & equipment, more efficient deployment of the workforce and quicker turnaround.
- Improve management effectiveness through planning, and better control systems.
- Capture tacit knowledge and ideas to improve maintenance performance.
- Improve staff morale, improve maintenance capacity and scope of work.
Getting the maximum return from your assets can be achieved by improving reliability and operational efficiency.
However, maintenance is often managed as part of an in-house function which is perceived as costly and beset by problems, and services are often reactive to the day to day demands of the business.
Early diagnoses and proactive management of work can result in significant savings in time and costs and improved availability of resources.
Maintenance Diagnosis
Main10© is our structured, systematic approach that provides a powerful and logical platform to improve maintenance performance.
It evaluates and rates the effectiveness of the current maintenance operation against 14 key indicators.
- This approach pinpoints strengths and weaknesses in the current maintenance operation.
- Identifies causes of low productivity and high cost.
- Quantifies both long- and short-term improvement potential, and ...
- Provides fully detailed action plans to improve productivity & reduce costs.
Particular problems are clearly identified and addressed.
In all cases we are looking for practical ways to improve 3 key closely inter-related factors:
- Utilisation.
- Performance and ...
- Methods.
The Smarter Maintenance Culture
The Touchstone Renard Smarter Maintenance solution provides a working culture approach to improving maintenance productivity and performance.
By looking at and identifying:
- Operational strengths and weaknesses.
- Low productivity.
- High cost issues, and ...
- Long and short term improvement potential ...
... clients have enjoyed substantial cost savings and productivity increases.
Smarter maintenance opportunities are where the gains can be made.
The real benefit of Smarter Maintenance is ensuring that improvements continue.
The sustainable nature of this solution is derived from the establishment of an active culture of controlled continuous improvement that can seize the real improvement opportunities, essential for organisations with changing and demanding environments.
Maintenance Assurance
This is a solution designed to address the regulatory issues of safety critical industries.
This ensures asset delivery and its maintenance conforms to the required standards, and delivers the necessary confidence in quality practices for both owner and supplier organisations.
This has and continues to be delivered to a number of train operating companies in the UK where HMRI regulatory conformance is vital to successful maintenance delivery.