Value driven maintenance software and planning

Everything you need to know about maintenance software

Value driven maintenance

Maintenance is crucial in any organization. Without proper maintenance, assets deteriorate over time causing a loss in quality of the output produced. More importantly, it can also impact the safety of the asset or the people that operate it. Traditionally, maintenance has been viewed as a cost center in an organization; it costs money to hire maintenance technicians and purchase the spare parts to keep systems running smoothly. Too often, senior executives ignore the added value maintenance can bring to an organization such as:

  • A reduction in reactive maintenance costs
  • Reducing costs to restart production after a breakdown
  • Limiting production scrap
  • Costs of downtime such as missed orders and lost revenue
  • Customer perception/satisfaction
  • Improved quality of products
  • Reduced environmental impact

Not surprisingly, maintenance can add economic value to a business by delivering maximum availability at the lowest possible cost. To view maintenance as a value driver, senior executives must move from cost-based thinking to value-based thinking.

Definition

Value-driven maintenance® (VDM) is not a maintenance type, but rather a philosophy developed by the founders of Mainnovation, Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay, for optimizing the value derived from maintenance at any particular point in time. The decision to perform maintenance at any time is based on cost/benefit analysis. It requires a delicate balancing between the value that improved reliability can bring and the cost of maintenance. This is summed up in the four value drivers below.

Value drivers

Asset utilization

Availability is the probability a system is functioning when needed to, under normal operating conditions. When the system is alive and well, the organization can continue to produce output and meet orders. Increasing availability means more units can be produced with the same equipment, generating more income while fixed costs remain unchanged. This scenario is ideal in growth markets where demand outstrips supply. For declining markets, increasing asset utilization in one facility could lead to shutting down a sister plant while still meeting demand.

Resource allocation

Resources are spare parts, labor, contractor labor, and knowledge. Whereas the consumption of those resources is covered under cost control; the resource allocation driver focuses on smarter management of those resources. For example, smarter inventory management can minimize stock on hand.  This reduces associated carrying costs and limits the impact of part obsolescence, increasing value for a company. The challenge for maintenance planners is to ensure there are adequate resources when needed for preventive or reactive maintenance.

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Safety, health & environment

Can you put a price on safety? A good safety, health and environment (SHE) policy is an important value driver for maintenance as it can have a significant negative affect on future cash flows if done incorrectly. Maintenance related incidents that injure personnel, damage equipment or have a negative affect on the environment will increase expenditure through litigation or imposed government penalties. A good SHE policy also ensures that the license to operate remains intact. Losing the license to operate means no income. The?BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexicodemonstrates the importance of SHE and the enormous impact it can have on costs when it goes wrong.

Cost Control

Salaries, contractor fees, parts, emergency shipments and specialist tools consume maintenance budgets. Reducing reactive maintenance and thus limiting the need for external contractors, emergency parts and technicians overtime can increase value by eliminating expenditure. Determining the optimal cost-effective time to perform maintenance tasks can further reduce costs. An effective preventive maintenance program can also help achieve cost savings, however, as more and more preventive maintenance is introduced, the cost savings eventually level out before they start to fall. The cost of performing additional maintenance exceeds the benefit.

An example implementation

The process that one semi-conductor manufacturing company underwent to implement TPM in their facility is described in Implementation of total productive maintenance: A case study.

Initially, the adoption of TPM failed for various reasons, including a lack of management support, a lack of resources, a lack of long-term vision and a lack of sustained momentum.

After the first failure, another attempt to implement TPM was made; this time with success. The main measurement for success was the number of units produced per stoppage. Using TPM this value increased from 500 units per stoppage to over 2000 units per stoppage.

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