PM Optimization

Your PM program may be costing you too much with too little benefit. The goal of PMO is to counteract this by ensuring the RIGHT strategy has produced the RIGHT procedures that are being performed by the RIGHT person at the RIGHT frequency. Effective and efficient PM’s can drastically reduce costly reactive maintenance and substantially increase equipment uptime and capacity.

Many maintenance departments struggle because their PM programs are not effective nor efficient. Common deficiencies include:

1. Inadequate task descriptions that are too short, poorly worded or incomplete
2. PM tasks performed too often, incurring unnecessary equipment downtime
3. PM tasks performed too late, allowing failures to occur
4. PM tasks adding no value and unnecessarily utilizing valuable maintenance resources
5. PM’s not addressing the true failure mode of the component being inspected
6. Alternative diagnostic tools and technologies not being considered or not being used
7. Low PM completion/schedule compliance leading to low PM priority
8. No accountability for quality PM execution: no follow-up, no audit, no analysis

Did you know?

Up to 30% of PM’s performed may not be adding value!

Many companies in the US spend less than 10% of their maintenance time on PM/PdM activity, while World Class companies spend greater than 40%.

The average “wrench time” of a predominantly reactive maintenance environment is ~25%.

Moving from 25% wrench time to 40% (with a crew of 20 maintenance employees working 40 hours per week) adds 120 hours of value added maintenance time per week with no additional cost!

Reactive maintenance is up to 5 times more costly than proactive maintenance