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{ FAULT FaultTREE Somebody’s - ...look familiar Shon Isenhour CMRP is the Director of Education for GPAllied. His focus is on providing holistic reliability improvement and bottom line performance gains to the manufacturing sector. You can read his blog at www.reliabilitynow.net or reach him at sisenhour@gpallied.com or by phone at 843-810-4446.
REPAIRABLES The management of repairable spare parts is different than the management of other inventory items. Successful management of these items is far more active than that of other spare parts, as maintenance and store/inventory personnel must work together to ensure that the status of the items is visible. The management of repairable items is one area where often the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing! Here are three tips to help improve your repairable parts management: 1. Track the status of the item. For successful management, you must know if the item is ready for use, awaiting repair (or batching), or undergoing repair. 2. Determine in advance your rules for repair or re-purchase. To do this, you need to consider issues such as the cost of repair vs. the cost of purchase, the functionality following repair, whether the item will provide the reliability performance you require, lead times for both repair and supply, dependent demand for components, the number of items in the system, and so on. 3. Let the accountants worry about the cost allocation. The question that I am most often asked about repairable items is ‘what is the right way to allocate the costs’ My response is for both maintenance and storeroom personnel to focus more on tracking and making repair/replace decisions than the cost allocation, as this is usually where the management of repairable spare parts goes wrong. Yes, cost issues will drive behavior but the key is to ensure a reliable supply of spare parts. The management of repairable spare parts is more complex than other types of spares. By recognizing this difference and working on appropriate processes and measures, there is no reason that this should be any more problematic than the management of other inventory items. Phillip Slater is a Materials and Spare Parts Management Specialist, engineer, consultant, and author of the book Smart Inventory Solutions. For more information, visit http://www.PhillipSlater.com
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