{"id":10709,"date":"2021-04-14T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:43:14","slug":"maintenance-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/14\/maintenance-24\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to world-class maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Consider your company\u2019s best practices for managing the assets and people in your organization<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-21115202\" class=\"page-contents__content-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Some of the most critical concepts in our lives are concepts that call on us to be better people. World-class maintenance is an important concept, not for what it is, but for what it can do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">World-class maintenance asks us to answer the question, \u201cHow can we support the mission, vision, and values of our organization in the best way possible?\u201d At its most powerful, this is a cultural conversation, not an operational conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Some attributes a world-class maintenance environment may include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A \u201cdo no harm\u201d approach to employees, communities, and the environment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Active management of risk<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Operation of assets only if they continue to provide value<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Achieving a \u201cwaste nothing\u201d operation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Assess asset management<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The best companies today are dedicating themselves to the triple bottom line of profit, people, and planet. They are taking a hard look at their processes and procedures to deliver their mission with fewer inputs of material, energy, and people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A new view of maintenance activity might look something like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Maintenance is a part of asset management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Asset management is managing assets from \u201clust to dust.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When working on or operating an asset, use precision techniques.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reduce all cost inputs. The fewer resources used, the better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Focus on the ongoing need to improve output, yield, and quality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">All activity is accurately accounted for and detailed in work orders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Maintenance is part of a larger conversation. This conversation starts with understanding an organization&#8217;s need, then finding an asset to provide that need, and learning how to maintain and operate that asset. Maintenance ends with the asset\u2019s disposal and managing any residual liability. Maintenance activity is something to be thought about and planned, but it is not the goal. The goal is getting the value the asset provides and limiting the risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One way to do this is to view challenges in new ways. Approach a problem as if you need to solve it permanently. What would it take to never have that problem again? Have a willingness to run controlled experiments within your organization and consider spending at least 1 percent of your effort improving things, not just fixing things in the short term.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Measure the impact of changes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Say goodbye to \u201cseat of the pants\u201d maintenance and hello to analysis-driven maintenance. Benchmarking allows fleets to use hard numbers and data to measure continuous improvement. To do this, fleets must have a willingness to use sophisticated tools of statistics, finance, and accounting in maintenance analysis, as well as be open to trying artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics for maintenance analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We must use all the tools we can adopt to achieve our mission. I have never met a tradesperson who wouldn\u2019t try a new tool. In management, we must lay down our fear of new tools (especially ones we don\u2019t completely understand), embrace our ignorance, and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Focus on the people<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Always focus on service, or adding value, to the customer and encourage the customer to participate in the maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There is one reason to have an asset to maintain and that is to provide some value to the organization. In general, the customer actually drives the mission, and we provide our customer with the means whereby they can drive that mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Beyond that, look at internal staff as well. Have the right people in the right jobs with the right competencies. When assessing this, consider:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Teams with different points of view can see defects and solutions from different angles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fade traditional barriers to information. Find new ways of reaching and communicating with these employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Offer continual training and cross-training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Have an attachment to people rather than to technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Look at every option before a layoff.That every other option is looked at before a layoff.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a people business. As you rise in the hierarchy of the business, you are dealing with fewer technical issues and more people problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The ultimate goal is to have a powerful, self-motivated workforce and excellent execution of maintenance, with well-supported customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Joel Levitt is the president of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that services a variety of clients on a wide range of maintenance issues. Levitt has trained more than 17,000 maintenance leaders from more than 3,000 organizations in 38 countries. He is also the creator of Laser-Focused Training, a flexible training program that provides specific, targeted training on your schedule, online to one to 250 people in maintenance management, asset management, and reliability.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By <span class=\"page-attribution__content-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetmaintenance.com\/home\/contact\/10121844\/joel-levitt\">Joel Levitt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted-by\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetmaintenance.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fleetmaintenance.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner vc_custom_1585038969469\">\n<div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"w-post-elm post_content\">\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner vc_custom_1585038969469\">\n<div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"w-post-elm post_content\">\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner vc_custom_1585038969469\">\n<div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"w-post-elm post_content\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5377\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider your company\u2019s best practices for managing the assets and people in your organization Some of the most critical concepts in our lives are concepts that call on us to be better people. World-class maintenance is an important concept, not for what it is, but for what it can do. 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