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If
you're looking for a practical way to
improve process reliability while engaging
employees, Granite Bay has a
cost-effective solution.
Maximizing
equipment efficiency in the face of lean
staffing, underskilling and competing
priorities is one of the biggest
challenges managers face. But high asset
utilization pays big dividends: a facility
with reliable processes enjoys lower
costs, higher yields, less firefighting,
happier employees and improved safety. It
also enables the organization to focus on
real continuous improvement.
Many
companies today are rethinking the
responsibilities for equipment
maintenance in order to support lean
and world-class manufacturing. Often, they
have a reactive "break-fix" maintenance
strategy that leads to higher downtime,
missed deliveries and higher maintenance
cost.
Better
integration of maintenance and production
reduces the potential for costly equipment
failure and line stoppages and the
frequency of overhauls. When production
and maintenance personnel collaborate on
how best to maintain equipment, we find
that operators will enthusiastically take
on some of the basic maintenance
responsibilities, freeing up maintenance
personnel to do failure analysis,
troubleshooting and training.
The
key is in transferring the right skills
to operators effectively and
gaining their support and enthusiasm
for taking on this important
responsibility. That is what this program
is designed to do.
Improving
Process
Reliability
is an in-house program designed
to:
- Maximize
equipment availability and efficiency
while reducing maintenance
costs
- Develop
maintenance and reliability skills
among operators and plant
leaders
- Build
a partnership between Maintenance,
Engineering and Operations to improve
equipment effectiveness
- Quickly
achieve significant, sustainable
improvements in reliability and
OEE
Here's
how Improving
Process
Reliability
works:
Reliability
Assessment - We start with a
comprehensive Reliability Assessment that
looks at current process and people
capability. We calculate Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE) and its key components
and identify a prioritized list of
specific improvement areas. Then, we
assess the skills, knowledge and attitudes
of production and maintenance personnel to
determine the level of future training,
instruction and communication
required.
Process
Improvement - Here, we focus on one or
two critical processes - those in which
improvements would deliver the greatest
value. In concert with technical
personnel, we develop hands-on maintenance
capability among operators. The goal is to
develop, for each process, a collaborative
approach to equipment maintenance and
reliability that drives improvement and
builds teamwork and
responsibility.
Ensuring
Success - Finally, we regularly audit
progress and provide additional support to
ensure that the gains are maintained and
that the focus shifts to continuous
improvement.
For
more information or to bring
Improving
Process
Reliability
to your facility, please contact
us.
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