What is your maintenance paradigm? Do you see the primary function of maintenance as:
- Keeping equipment running?
- Optimizing key equipment?
- Performing PMs and responding to breakdowns?
- Preventing breakdowns through predictive technology and best practices?
- Maintaining the flow of product out the door?
- Serving the needs of the production department?
Chances are your view is based predominantly on one of these. Whichever one it is, it determines how you proceed with everyday maintenance functions. There is no wrong choice, but your thinking can be too narrow unless you consider the other choices.
If you are a maintenance manager, it is good for you and your team to identify your paradigm. Then pick a different one and think about how your implementation would change. Would you do more PMs? Fewer? Simpler ones? What other work would change, and what would be the effects?
Try a pilot program of bringing some of the changes into how you do maintenance, and then measure the results.
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