Lean World Class® from Predictive Maintenance to Predictive Quality
Maintenance: a key success factor in industrial production processes
Maintenance is a key success factor in industrial business operations. It has a direct impact on the whole manufacturing system, product quality, and production costs. Many factories take a reactive maintenance approach, focusing on breakdown analysis and resolution only after a problem arises, but this approach, ultimately, has negative impacts on performance and results.
Good maintenance turns into great performances and then into excellent results.
How to master maintenance: Lean World Class® Maintenance Approach
At the core of Lean World Class® maintenance approach is the partnership between manufacturing / production staff, maintenance technicians, and technical services to improve what is called Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Launching a program of zero breakdowns and zero defects results in the improvement or elimination of six crippling shop-floor losses:
1. Equipment breakdowns
2. Setup and adjustment slowdowns
3. Idling and short-term stoppages
4. Reduced capacity
5. Quality-related losses
6. Startup/restart losses
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