Many businesses have to live with both poor equipment reliability, and high maintenance cost.  They’d like better reliability, but not at any cost.  Fortunately, there is a way to increase equipment reliability economically with the following balanced approach:

• Time based maintenance
• Condition based maintenance
• Run to failure
• Maintaining operations for high reliability requires each of the 3 approaches to maintenance.

The exact strategy will depend on current practices and conditions, but will include elements such as:

• Significant outage investigation system (such as problem solving)
• Criticality based assessment of assets
• Machine and equipment ledgers
• Clean, Inspect, and Tag exercises to stabilize basic conditions, and allow time based maintenance to be effective
• Engagement of both operators and maintenance technicians
• Senior management sponsorship

For a gap analysis, and an outline plan on what benefits a best practice maintenance strategy could do for your business, give us a call