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Maintenance
You’re Wasting
Your Money on Maintenance
And most manager/executives
don’t even know
it. Many senior managers
think they’re doing
an insufficient amount
of maintenance on plant
& equipment and want
to do and spend even more
to improve their plant
output. Many believe their
people are doing maintenance
poorly and call on consultants
to come in to correct,
in a cookie cutter manner,
how maintenance is done.
Some even believe that
they can simply work harder
themselves to eventually
get it just right.
Most senior managers
believe they over spend
on maintenance & get
an inadequate return on
their spending.
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Lean Maintenance
In an effort to improve
plant reliability, assure
capacity and reduce manufacturing
costs, more and more maintenance
experts are evaluating
the applicability of Lean
Manufacturing practices
to maintenance operations.
To properly implement
Lean methodologies, it
is important to identify
customer needs, establish
measures, analyze value
versus waste, reduce waste
and monitor performance.
This presentation outlines
Lean principles, tools
and techniques and provides
real life examples of
Lean techniques applied
to maintenance operations.
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Marc Cassini -
Senior Editorial Developer,
Corporate Learning -
Federated Press Inc.
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Maintenance Engineering
Despite the benefits
of an effective maintenance
engineering function,
many companies fail to
make it a top priority
– and suffer the
results; unreliable plant
and equipment, reduced
throughput, poor recoveries,
excessive costs, and lost
business.
In capital intensive
industries, maintenance
costs can represent upwards
of 30%-50% of total operating
costs. And in many executives’
minds, maintenance engineering
becomes a reluctant part
of this cost of doing
business. Why do they
have this perception?
The reality is that, for
a variety of reasons,
maintenance and operations
managers have not demonstrated
the real value that maintenance
engineering can add -
increased throughput,
lower working capital
requirements, increased
labour productivity, improved
safety, and lower costs
– all measurable
on the income statement,
balance sheet, and cash
flow statements.
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Capacity Assurance
There’s no doubt
about it; these are challenging
times. For those in the
machinery industry, the
litany of challenges seems
endless: globalization,
a shaky export advantage,
industry consolidation,
the cost of U.S. produced
capital, etc. But there’s
a light, and it’s
not at the end of the
tunnel, it’s within
the tunnel—and it’s
accessible to all manufacturers,
even those with tight
capital budgets. I call
it “Capacity Assurance.”
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