Making smart decisions at the system level is the most efficient and effective way to improve maintenance outcomes while lowering costs. We will present 10 recommendations, beginning with this one: Standardize and Optimize Maintenance Procedures.
Do different maintenance techs approach the same maintenance task differently? If so, there's an opportunity to analyze different approaches to ensure consistency and optimize results.
Starting with your most critical equipment, gather input from the maintenance team on how best to maintain it. You’ll encounter a range of opinions. Dig deeper and ask for technical explanations as to why one way might be better than another. Does it save time or cost less? Is it safer? Does it result in a better job?
If you find that two or three approaches seem equally valid, the group should pick one to be the standard. Once you’ve decided the standard way to do X, document that procedure in your CMMS. And making a video of “how to” is never a bad idea.
