Annual Report 2006 - Euromaint
Annual Report 2006 - Euromaint
Annual Report 2006 - Euromaint
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EuroMaint<br />
Operational development<br />
Maintenance is a commission of trust based on in-depth, industry-specific skill and a broad, sector-wide<br />
innovative approach. Whichever industry EuroMaint operates in the goal is the same: to find the best balance<br />
between availability, profitability and safety for the customer.<br />
We create customer value by optimising processes and technology.<br />
The question we continuously ask in our operational development<br />
is how: How can we make our processes more efficient? How can<br />
we introduce new technology and new methods for streamlined<br />
maintenance? How can we develop our collaboration with strategic<br />
partners? How can we harness and develop creative ideas?<br />
Synergy and customer benefit<br />
As a maintenance group with operations in different industries,<br />
EuroMaint benefits from synergies. The lowest common denominator<br />
is that every operational disruption comes as a surprise – more<br />
or less. Ideally less. By refining maintenance planning, preventing<br />
surprises, fine-tuning logistics and being prepared to act ahead of the<br />
unexpected, we minimise the number of operational disruptions.<br />
Statistics or reality<br />
Conventional preventive maintenance is based on operating statistics<br />
which determine how often the measures are carried out. In contrast,<br />
new preventive maintenance is condition based. Thanks to new technology<br />
for monitoring the condition of equipment, we can measure<br />
the maintenance need and carry out the work when it is actually needed.<br />
Partnership and the wide scope<br />
Maintenance requires both general and specialist expertise. At<br />
EuroMaint we recognise that we cannot be specialists at everything.<br />
We therefore collaborate with selected partners. Some of them are<br />
closely involved in our operational development regarding condition<br />
monitoring, documentation and Integrated Logistics Support,<br />
ILS. Others help to complete the total range of services we<br />
offer customers.<br />
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From activity to process<br />
During the year EuroMaint has launched the Total Service Concept, TSC,<br />
as a comprehensive proposition for the entire industry. The total service<br />
aspect lies in viewing maintenance not only as a series of activities,<br />
but as something closely integrated with operation. This approach<br />
enables us to take greater advantage of breaks in operation to carry out<br />
preventive maintenance. Similarly, better use can be made of operators’<br />
knowledge in day-to-day maintenance. Maintenance has on the whole<br />
become more specialised and expertise-demanding. Does the customer<br />
want us just to take care of the specialised maintenance? Or to be<br />
responsible for the total service? The choice is the customer’s.<br />
Total concept independent of sector<br />
The TSC was originally developed within EuroMaint Rail to offer<br />
customers in the rail transport industry a more comprehensive<br />
package, to provide relief and assume total responsibility for<br />
availability. Since then, with the support of the Group management,<br />
EuroMaint Industry has further developed and adapted the concept<br />
to the engineering industry. One of the main benefits our subsidiaries<br />
enjoy in being part of a maintenance group is that the development<br />
of methods relating to operational reliability and maintenance is<br />
largely the same regardless of industry.<br />
active ideas process<br />
EuroMaint has the breadth in maintenance engineering that enables<br />
us to harness and exchange good ideas between the rail transport,<br />
engineering, energy and processing industries and other sectors.<br />
One way of adding new knowledge is to arrange personnel seminars<br />
with external speakers. In a Group that recognises creative innovative<br />
thinking, actively seeks new ideas and ensures they are swiftly<br />
implemented, good ideas rarely come in ones.