Annual Report 2006 (pdf) - EuroMaint Rail

EuroMaint
Operational development
Maintenance is a commission of trust based on in-depth, industry-specific skill and a broad, sector-wide
innovative approach. Whichever industry EuroMaint operates in the goal is the same: to find the best balance
between availability, profitability and safety for the customer.
We create customer value by optimising processes and technology.
The question we continuously ask in our operational development
is how: How can we make our processes more efficient? How can
we introduce new technology and new methods for streamlined
maintenance? How can we develop our collaboration with strategic
partners? How can we harness and develop creative ideas?
Synergy and customer benefit
As a maintenance group with operations in different industries,
EuroMaint benefits from synergies. The lowest common denominator
is that every operational disruption comes as a surprise – more
or less. Ideally less. By refining maintenance planning, preventing
surprises, fine-tuning logistics and being prepared to act ahead of the
unexpected, we minimise the number of operational disruptions.
Statistics or reality
Conventional preventive maintenance is based on operating statistics
which determine how often the measures are carried out. In contrast,
new preventive maintenance is condition based. Thanks to new technology
for monitoring the condition of equipment, we can measure
the maintenance need and carry out the work when it is actually needed.
Partnership and the wide scope
Maintenance requires both general and specialist expertise. At
EuroMaint we recognise that we cannot be specialists at everything.
We therefore collaborate with selected partners. Some of them are
closely involved in our operational development regarding condition
monitoring, documentation and Integrated Logistics Support,
ILS. Others help to complete the total range of services we
offer customers.
From activity to process
During the year EuroMaint has launched the Total Service Concept, TSC,
as a comprehensive proposition for the entire industry. The total service
aspect lies in viewing maintenance not only as a series of activities,
but as something closely integrated with operation. This approach
enables us to take greater advantage of breaks in operation to carry out
preventive maintenance. Similarly, better use can be made of operators’
knowledge in day-to-day maintenance. Maintenance has on the whole
become more specialised and expertise-demanding. Does the customer
want us just to take care of the specialised maintenance? Or to be
responsible for the total service? The choice is the customer’s.
Total concept independent of sector
The TSC was originally developed within EuroMaint Rail to offer
customers in the rail transport industry a more comprehensive
package, to provide relief and assume total responsibility for
availability. Since then, with the support of the Group management,
EuroMaint Industry has further developed and adapted the concept
to the engineering industry. One of the main benefits our subsidiaries
enjoy in being part of a maintenance group is that the development
of methods relating to operational reliability and maintenance is
largely the same regardless of industry.
Active ideas process
EuroMaint has the breadth in maintenance engineering that enables
us to harness and exchange good ideas between the rail transport,
engineering, energy and processing industries and other sectors.
One way of adding new knowledge is to arrange personnel seminars
with external speakers. In a Group that recognises creative innovative
thinking, actively seeks new ideas and ensures they are swiftly
implemented, good ideas rarely come in ones.
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