Having completed over 24 maintenance audits since 2004 using an objective maintenance systems auditing tool, we have highlighted to clients several key maintenance issues that are significant contributors to poor maintenance performance.
These in-turn contribute to high maintenance costs, unreliable plant and equipment and poor availability.
Key Maintenance Issues
- Lack of maintenance direction
- Lack of detailed planning
- Lack of meaningful reports
- Lack of formal maintenance business processes & procedures
- Lack of clear position descriptions that support the business process
- Lack of maintenance KPI’s (you can’t control what you don’t measure)
- Poorly set up maintenance system
Key Maintenance Audit Steps
Identify the Issues
You can’t commence change unless you know what you need to change. We do this via our objective spider audit assessment.Deliver Directional Focus
AME deliver a concise and informative report clearly outlining key issues, prioritised, together with recommendations that may improve the performance of your maintenance business.Provide a manageable program for change
Starting with high return areas, we provide you a program to follow to implement & monitor improvementStrategy Improvement Process
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Maintenance Improvement Program”] A presentation collating the strengths and weaknesses is prepared detailing the findings and what actions can be taken to improve the Maintenance performance on site, Following the audit a site specific Improvement Program can be developed.
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Implementation of Improvement Plan”] Following the approval of the Maintenance Improvement Program, a maintenance business process owner needs to be appointed, who is responsible for ensuring any maintenance changes are implemented. A follow up meeting is arranged every three months. If required, ongoing mentoring and support can be provided between these reviews.
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