Cómo el mantenimiento revolucionará el mundo (Capítulo 4, Parte 1)

*Over the next few weeks, UpKeep will be releasing chapters from our upcoming publication, How Maintenance Will Revolutionize the World. This is the first installment and includes chapters 1-3. Chapter 3 can be found here.

HOW TO EXECUTE A MAINTENANCE PLAN

“Yesterday's skills will not fuel tomorrow's economy.”
-Elaine Chao

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR CHOOSING A MAINTENANCE STRATEGY
If you don’t have a maintenance plan at your business, it’s time to make one.

This section is for those just starting on their maintenance hero journey. If you do not have an intentional plan in place for maintenance on your equipment, start here.

INSTRUCTIONS

We’ve provided the simplest way to get started picking the right maintenance for your business below. First, break out your existing assets into this 2x2 matrix that plots each equipment by the cost of failure by costs to track. While this isn’t the most thorough way to assess your maintenance needs, it is helpful in guiding you on how to start.

Take all of your assets and rate each on the 1-10 scale below. As a general rule, assets are any pieces of equipment that are over $2000 in value OR are critical to your business. *Note, use your best judgement and this is meant to be a relative exercise!

1= high cost to track condition →  10= easy/low cost to track condition
1= high cost of failure →  10= low cost of failure

Next, plot each piece of equipment on this diagram.Note that you will have assets under different quadrants on the chart. This is right as each piece of equipment will have its own ideal form of maintenance.

Now that you have an idea of which kinds of maintenance you should invest in moving forward, read on to your specific section for more on this type of maintenance and how to get started.

STEP 1 - COLLECTING DATA - ADD YOUR ASSETS

• Document all of your equipment

• If you run maintenance on components of equipment, be sure to include that as well.

• Put them into a spreadsheet that looks like the sample below. Your key columns should be: asset name, asset category, asset cost, and lifetime

STEP 2 - COLLECTING DATA - SCORE ON COST OF FAILURE

• Score all of your equipment in a 1-10 based on the cost of failure of this asset. The cost of failure should include all things including:

• Downtime costs

• Regulatory cost

• What are all of the risks from a hazard, safety, etc perspective

• What is the probability of failure?

• Replacement costs

STEP 3 - COLLECTING DATA - SCORE ON ABILITY TO TRACK CONDITION

• Score all of your equipment from 1-10 based on the ability to measure and track the condition of your equipment. When thinking about the cost to measure performance and track condition, be sure to include:
  

  • Technician time to measure performance

  • Cost of sensors

  • Cost of time to implement

  • Do we currently have the resources

Step 4 - COLLECTING DATA - PLOT DATA POINTS

• Plot all of your assets on this grid to help you determine the correct maintenance strategy

• Your equipment may have many different maintenance strategies which is why it is important to showcase your sub-assets

• This is an exercise to help guide you -- this is not the only way to do this.

Step 5 - COLLECTING DATA

• Take all of your equipment and start assigning maintenance strategies.

• If you have regulatory compliance, you’ll want to use those guidelines, not this guide.

• Go through all of your assets in run to failure. Are you sure you want to run these into failure? Did we categorize this correctly?

• If you have a component on an asset that is a single point of failure for your equipment, you’ll want to make sure that inherit the cost of the failure to be the main asset. For example, the HVAC could be a 6 cost of failure, and if the heat exchanger goes down then it takes the entire HVAC down, the heat exchanger should also be a 6 for cost of failure.

Step 6 - SETTING UP REPORTS and ESTABLISH KPIs for the team

• Run a few reports

• You can now track how many assets have multiple maintenance strategies

• Create a dashboard that displays
  

  • What % of your assets are in run to failure, preventive, condition based, etc?

  • And what value of your assets are in maintenance strategy bucket?

• As a company is this where you want to be?

• For all of your assets in preventive maintenance -- track schedule compliance etc

• Here are some KPIs to track based on your maintenance strategy

Step 7  - START TAKING ACTION -- TIME BASED PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

• Go through all of your assets in the time based preventive maintenance bucket

• Start creating PM schedules for each. You can use this as a guide for choosing the correct interval

• https://www.idcon.com/resource-library/articles/preventive-maintenance/479-how-decide-frequencies.html

• Here is a common checklist for preventive maintenance: http://wordpress-484842-1527293.cloudwaysapps.com/preventive-maintenance-checklist/

Step 8  - START TAKING ACTION - CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE

• Purchase the equipment to log and track 

• Set up the correct intervals for your team to run condition based maintenance

Step 9  - START TAKING ACTION - PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

• Start small. Be sure you have strong leadership and a hard-working team in place, and don’t try and take it all on at once.

• Identify PdM ready assets. Choose your pilot assets wisely, not at random.

• Identify resources required. Prepare the labor, materials, facilities, technology (sensors), and training to start your PdM program.

• Implement asset monitoring and begin data collection. Install new technologies and collect baseline data.

• Create algorithms to predict failures. Design algorithms to process and analyze data from your new PdM technologies.

• Apply to pilot asset. Use PdM technologies and algorithms to monitor and provide insights on your pilot asset.

• Establish continuous implementation and improvement process. Synthesize learnings to prove your PdM program’s value and continue to improve before begin taking steps to scale.

Step 10 - Improvement process : GET BETTER DATA

• Now this entire process starts from the very beginning and it starts with better, higher quality data 

• Understand what actions worked 

• Track your KPIs and understand the actual cost of failure of your equipment to decide whether you want to change your maintenance strategy

• Identify bottlenecks in your process

• Move condition based maintenance to predictive

Chapter 4 to be continued next week!