Maintenance Standardization

 03/12/2019
Productivity
By Dr. Alin Posteucă

Even if all companies would like to be able to use all the resources they have to their fullest extent and to completely eliminate all losses & waste, often their actions are not part of a real culture of improvement.

Recently, I visited a few companies that highlighted equipment issues (especially breakdown and minor stoppages) and, by default, maintenance issues. Managers knew that these problems lead to increased unit costs (spare parts; utilities; scrap & rework; lower production volume with the same fixed costs, etc.) and lower productivity (MTTR and MTBF deficient; standard cycle time with large variations; large number of breakdowns and minor stoppages, etc.). However, even if the unanimous perception was that in those companies there is a consistent culture of improvements, maintenance standardization (cleaning, lubrication and inspection; planning for changing spare parts and consumables; intervention times, etc.) did not prove to be a priority.

So, do you think that standardization of maintenance (times and materials) should be a priority for companies in the next period, especially in the light of decreasing production volumes and profit?

Source: Alin Posteucă on LinkedIn

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Strategic productivity and profitability consultant and researcher, Alin Posteucă, Ph.D., Ph.D. is transforming the way companies approach their strategic transformation. With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Posteucă has created effective concepts such as Strategic Kaizen, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets and Costing. His research on production flow has led to innovative breakthroughs in strategic and operational productivity improvement.

Posteucă's investigation into typologies of losses and waste has identified feasible improvements that can achieve the ideal state of production flow, known as Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO). His Takt Profit model allows the optimization of production planning, transforming profit per minute into objectives for strategic improvements achieved through Strategic Kaizen projects.

Posteucă's research has led to increased effectiveness in strategic improvements and has set the stage for future productivity in the world of manufacturing technology. He is laureate of the Romanian Academy of the "Traian Vuia" Prize, the highest scientific prize in Romania.