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Maintenance Management in a competitive landscape

In the modern competitive business landscape resource efficiency is paramount and cashflow is the lifeblood of any business. The reliability, resiliency and sustainability of the cashflow is generated by the value producing physical assets of the business, the heart that beats. 

 

Much like a healthy heart, the business ecosystem health and culture rely on the effective and efficient allocation and utilization of resources, processes, systems, and workflows to function optimally.  When that ecosystem is unhealthy, it is disrupted, the business becomes unhealthy and opens itself to the inability to defend against internal and external threats. 

We often hear about Maintenance Management without really understanding what it is.

“Maintenance Management is the activities and decision making of an organization to sustain or improve the reliability of the businesses physical assets used in the manufacture, production, logistics, transportation or functional utilization of goods and services through its useful operating lifecycle.”

Summing up the aim of Maintenance Management

"minimizing the loss of productive time because of asset unreliability through the effective and efficient allocation of organizational resources balancing time, cost, quality and risk" 

More business performance to the organization

  • Culture of excellence

  • Synergy between Engineering and Business functions

  • Strategy alignment

  • Effective and efficient utilization of business resources 

  • Cost, risk and business performance

Swinging spanners, lube it up and have a look see

Maintenance Management is more than just swinging the spanners, lubricating, fix stuff when they are down and inspections. As you can see maintenance management is a lot more than a first impression.

Maintenance Management elements

What is Maintenance Management?

Create unfair advantage with Maintenance Management

Why unfairly?

Think about it this way. Do motorsport teams compete fairly or disproportionately towards their advantage to win? Motorsport teams are always innovating, training and upskilling to create advantages that increases the likelihood of winning. So if the most innovative sport on the planet does this what is stopping you?

Maintenance Management leadership creates maintenance management excellence. So is leadership about doing the right things or doing things right?

Working towards maintenance management excellence can be challenging fully of complexity and technicality and it is a strategy that a business needs to make a conscious choice about, that’s the first step. Because the business strategy is about the conscious choices that a business makes to be unfairly competitive and outperform competitors in the industry the business provides goods or services to.

Good leadership starts with strategy

We at Gaishan, recommend and advise that you start with your strategy as a first step and work towards Asset Management and Maintenance Management excellence as source of creating disproportionate advantage to win. Take advantage of our strategy facilitation to ask the hard questions and draw out what you need and how to win. 

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Maintenance Managemnet Strategy relationship

Creating a line of sight from your organisational strategy

Line of sight from organizational strategy

With a organizational strategy in place, the next step is stripping down that strategy into your Asset Management and or Maintenance Management Strategy.

Relationship with Asset Management ISO 55000

You might have noticed we include Asset Management, and you might be wondering what relevance it has with Maintenance Management. Well, Asset Management is about the management of assets throughout its lifecycle, it is a higher-level strategy that encompasses other organizational functions.

A part of the asset lifecycle with a big impact

Maintenance Management is mainly concerned with the operation and maintenance stage of the asset lifecycle.

Asset Lifecycle

Your current capability and management system 

Your culture of Maintenance Management excellence

From here there are mainly two things you need to think about. We can assure you that the two things will keep you more than occupied.

  1. Capabilities

  2. Management system

What is capability?

We like to think of capability as the ability to consistently perform within a measurement or metric.

The importance of understanding capability is to give you insight into how well your management systems is able to meet performance measures currently and in the future.

How do we measure your capability?

There is statistical mathematics involved here but thankfully it is not as complex as say double integration or triple derivatives. We use Six Sigma methods to identify:

1. The potential capability of your management system

2. The actual capability of your management system

3. The degree of separation between actual and target â€‹

What is a management system?

A management system is simply the processes, workflows, digital systems, activities and tasks that a function uses and performs to produce an output of value from input factors. ​

What is a management system?

The key to an effective management system are:

1. Communication

2. Consistency

3. Standardisation

4. Good governance and framework

We don't leave you in the dark

​That's not all we don't leave you in the dark, we follow through and give you recommendations from feedback responses and analysis. 

Let us know how we can help you

There is a lot of ground to cover when planning for a culture of maintenance management excellence. There are a few tools and techniques used in defining and specifying the requirements, developing the processes and workflows, identifying, defining and specifying the management system requirements. It is a lot and that is why we are here to guide you through success in your culture change journey.

List of Benefits

  • Asset breakdown performance

  • Asset Management integration

  • Asset health visibility

  • Asset data structure development

  • Budget planning maturity

  • Business strategic alignment

  • Continuous improvement maturity

  • Effective management of asset risk

  • Enhanced asset performance

  • Enhanced accountability

  • Enhanced financial performance

  • Enhanced EAMS & CMMS utlization

  • Enhanced organizational reputation

  • Enhanced shutdown planning

  • Improved asset availability

  • Improved asset information

  • Improved asset reliability

  • Improved capability and maturity

  • Improved inventory management

  • Improved profit margin

  • Improved operational performance

  • Improved regulatory compliance

  • Improved resource management

  • Improved risk management

  • Informed decision making

  • Integrated decision making process

  • Integrated organizational functions

  • Integrated digital systems

  • Internal knowledge and experience

  • Organizational alignment

  • Operating cost performance

  • Optimized EAMS & CMMS

  • Organizational culture

  • Organizational resiliency

  • Organizational sustainability

  • Planning and scheduling excellence 

  • RCM maturity and capability

  • Resource management excellence

  • Shareholder confidence growth

  • Stakeholder confidence growth

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