Professional Services - Maintenance Assessment


Evaluation of current operations in the context of good maintenance practices and cost-effectiveness standards!
Summary

Our maintenance assessment typically incorporates two days of on-site investigation and one to two days analyzing and compiling a report detailing opportunities in the areas of:

  • Improved equipment reliability
  • Reduced overall plant operating costs
  • Improved impact by the maintenance department on plant profitability
  • Reduced maintenance inventory costs
  • Improved labor efficiency
  • Improved return on assets

The assessment report provides a detailed step-by-step action plan that will move you from a reactionary maintenance department to a world-class maintenance management organization. The project plan will contain specific milestones for accountability and provide a roadmap for a smooth transition to a computerized maintenance management system.

What is surveyed?
  • Maintenance and organization culture
  • Maintenance storeroom
  • Capacity improvement
  • Maintenance planning & scheduling
  • Preventive and predictive maintenance
  • Overall equipment effectiveness
  • Operational support performance
  • Benchmarking continuous maintenance
  • Improvement practices
  • Maintenance inventory control
  • Organization and administration
  • Work authorization and work control
  • Equipment reliability
  • Labor utilization
  • Operator-based maintenance
  • Safety, housekeeping, and regulatory compliance
  • Craft skills development
  • Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
What does the assessment deliver?

A Gantt chart presenting preliminary task requirements, estimated task-days, and specific progress milestones to:

  • Improve production equipment reliability
  • Improve operational and product quality
  • Improve operational cost effectiveness

Identifies improvement opportunities presented in engineering terms and based on industry best practices. These methods include, identifying cost avoidance opportunities, capacity improvements, and procedures to improve profitability. The assessment project provides concise, instructions on who does what and when so your project will be completed on time and under budget.

How does all of this help you?
  • Provides a long-range plan to get control of and reduce maintenance costs
  • Changes the culture of your organization from reactive maintenance to a proactive
  • Provides a tool to control and organize your spare parts inventory
  • Provides a plan to increase production equipment reliability
  • Provides increased company profitability

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