REACTIVE: Operate Equipment Until it Fails
This approach has a serious impact on productivity, planning and maintenance costs and results in expensive maintenance and low availability. Costs for down time will be extremely high. Unexpected demand controls your maintenance activity. Effectiveness is low, and work may be performed inefficiently, under pressure, and can be unsafe.
PROACTIVE: Monitor, Plan, Coordinate - Normal Down Time
This approach puts you in control of your equipment. Monitor equipment during normal operation. Plan preventive and corrective maintenance. Coordinate maintenance planning with production requirements. Utilize scheduled production down time or periods of low demand for maintenance work. Keep maintenance equipment and parts on hand, ready for use.
DISCUSSION
The original design parameters and intended equipment availability factors help define the expected utilization of a particular type of crane and can be an early aid in the development of a maintenance program. It is extremely important that historical data be used in the establishment of an effective maintenance program.
We must also realize that changes in production performance of a piece of equipment may not reflect poor maintenance but may indicate worn out equipment or equipment needing updating. Good maintenance programs and historical recordkeeping can do more than reduce costs and increase capacity. They can also provide decision makers with the tools and hard data for making informed decision about operations including the scheduling of new equipment purchases and modifications to existing equipment. Knowing when to repair, upgrade or retire old equipment gives operations and maintenance managers a competitive edge in maintaining profitability.
In determining your true maintenance costs, you are not only concerned with the costs of personnel, equipment, and parts, but the costs incurred as a result of lost production time and delayed delivery schedules.
YOUR SOLUTION
Whiting Services can develop and maintain these programs for you. Our experience indicates that Proactive Maintenance Programs are cost effective and highly beneficial to a company's continued profitable operation.
