Maintworld 2/2020
To the Bravest Asset Managers – Living and working in the post-corona era ADAPTIVE ALIGNMENT - DATA-DRIVEN SPARE PARTS MANAGEMENT - MANAGING THE CRISIS EFFECTIVELY
To the Bravest Asset Managers – Living and working in the post-corona era
ADAPTIVE ALIGNMENT - DATA-DRIVEN SPARE PARTS MANAGEMENT - MANAGING THE CRISIS EFFECTIVELY
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PARTNER ARTICLE<br />
Are you ready?<br />
CHRISTER IDHAMMAR<br />
Reliability and<br />
Maintenance<br />
Management Guru,<br />
Founder IDCON INC<br />
“We need to implement<br />
Maintenance 4.0! I just<br />
came back from a conference<br />
and it seems like<br />
everybody is doing it,”<br />
exclaimed John, a<br />
reliability engineer.<br />
“JOHN, I LIKE YOUR ENTHUSIASM AND<br />
I AM GLAD YOU LEARNED SOME NEW<br />
STUFF AT THE CONFERENCE. We have<br />
higher priorities for you to work on.<br />
We had three major break downs this<br />
month that caused eight hours of lost<br />
production and expensive repairs. The<br />
daily schedule compliance is only at<br />
58 percent, and most of the jobs in the<br />
schedule aren’t planned” said Brian, the<br />
maintenance manager.<br />
“Yes” John replied, “But if we implement<br />
more machine learning and online<br />
sensors, we can increase data collection<br />
and fix this”.<br />
“John, do you remember when we<br />
put in about 100 sensors on process line<br />
two? Your cell phone was jammed up<br />
with alarms. And even though you spent<br />
a lot of time filtering them and requesting<br />
only the most urgent repairs, our<br />
backlog went way up. Your requests had<br />
to compete with all other urgent work in<br />
backlog. Several of the failures you had<br />
reported went to break down. It took<br />
us almost a year to get backlog back to<br />
what we considered normal. The same<br />
will happen, on a larger scale if we jump<br />
into more technology that we are not<br />
ready for.”<br />
“John, in the long run I agree that we<br />
should implement new technologies.<br />
I want you to keep learning about all<br />
the new technologies we can use and<br />
implement at the right time. Right now,<br />
you have to help me get the very basics<br />
implemented.”<br />
“So, what do you want me to focus on<br />
before we can implement Maintenance<br />
4.0?” asked John.<br />
“To start with the planners are only<br />
using 30 percent of their time actually<br />
planning work. The Bill of Materials is<br />
incomplete, so they can’t find the parts<br />
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