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Running a manufacturing or other physical plant intensive, enterprise is not an easy job. The unit is comprised of workers, machinery, raw materials and many other resources. Only with efficient work schedules and processes is a successful amalgamation of all these independent components possible. One that results in delivery of product or service at the stipulated time. Process Optimization for High Performance Asset Management Machinery and equipment are crucial for the existence of industrial plant and manufacturing enterprises and their maintenance is a top priority. As equipment ages, periodic inspection and preventive maintenance of these assets becomes critical. And successfully integrating increasing maintenance activities into highly driven, lean, operations environments is no easy task. But one that is essential. The keys to efficiently integrating maintenance processes into organizational operations processes are - a) Efficient use of maintenance windows allotted. b) Enabling committed service levels to be met or exceeded. c) Ability to expose planned maintenance schedules to operations. d) Ability to quickly leverage any available planned or unplanned production or operations downtime. Calendar based maintenance work order management ensures that your equipment undergoes maintenance at the scheduled time or date. However, when properly implemented, calendar based maintenance management can achieve much more. Calendar based maintenance management - maximizing customer service levels The use of computerized maintenance management software makes your work order management tasks much easier. This capability is dramatically increased by having all open and upcoming work orders displayed and managed in a calendar view. This real-world view gives supervisors the ability to meet changing priorities, properly match the required skill sets and expertise to tasks, and ensure that proper tooling and parts are allocated for work orders and projects at the time of execution. Knowing what level of personnel is required and at exactly what time of day, week or month gives planners key insight into how to maximize efforts and minimize both actual repair time, and most importantly, minimize the elapsed time between open work order and completion. Work request dates, due dates, schedule dates, promise dates, etc., can all be viewed and managed concurrently. If changes are necessary and target completion dates are altered, having visibility into other published or committed dates can dramatically improve decision making and communications. In addition, future capacities can be reported and if need be, modified to meet demand or to match available resources, such as accommodating scheduling according to seasonal related factors. Calendar based maintenance management - visibility among departments Preventive maintenance software provides a methodology to obtain visibility into the status of maintenance work. It also provides resource requirements visibility that affect tool crib inventory, technician workloads, and may other potential suppliers and costs. Managing this process via a calendar view of workload and resource requirements not only facilitates efficiencies at the time of work order and task fullfillment, but also opens up the opportunity for the maintenance department to react positively to actions created by operations. For example, if assets are showing to be coming off line due to production or operations reasons, then the opportunity exists for critical or down-tie inducing maintenance tasks to be performed at this time, rather than wait for perhaps soon-to-trigger notifications to occur - once the asset comes back on line. Similarly, if a calendar view of future down time or degraded level performance asset statuses, due to planned maintenance are made visible to operations, then, planning for efficient use of those assets in production can occur, in conjunction advance communication of any potential conflicts. Businesses of any type cannot operate without effective and efficient production work management practices. Similarly, enterprise asset management and maintenance management work processes must also be lean, efficient, and waste free. Working in tandem and with shared visibility, ensures high asset reliability, along with high performance operations product or service delivery.
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