Best Maintenance Repair Practices

You may be asking, what are the Best Maintenance Repair Practices Here are a few that maintenance personnel must know. (See Table 1.1.)... 

Looking through this abbreviated Best Maintenance Repair Practices table, try to determine whether your company follows these guidelines. 

The maintenance workforce lacks either the discipline or direction to follow best maintenance repair practices. 

In order to solve the problem of not following Best Maintenance Repair Practices, a sequential course of action should be taken ... 

Maintenance skill level Perform skills assessment (written and performance based) to evaluate whether skill levels are adequate to meet Best Maintenance Repair Practices for your specific maintenance organization. 

Maintenance strategy Develop a plan to introduce a proactive maintenance model with Preventive and Planned Maintenance at the top of planned priorities. This will provide more time for performing maintenance utilizing the Best Maintenance Repair Practices. ... 

Conflict between emergencies and performing maintenance following Best Maintenance Repair Practices (this does not mean all emergent repairs must be performed to as built specifications the first time, but it does mean that the repair, especially a temporary fix, will be corrected during the next outage of the equipment). 

To conclude, as many as 90% of companies in the United States do not follow Best Maintenance Repair Practices. The percent that do follow these practices are realizing the rewards of a well run, capacity-driven organization that can successfully compete in today s and tomorrow s marketplace. Remember that use of the Best Maintenance Repair Practices might just become a mandatory requirement for the future success of an organization in today s economy. 

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Chapter 1 Introduction Why Use Best Maintenance Repair Practices 1... 

Percent planned work Measured by either the percent work orders planned or percent actual craft hours on planned work. This metric evaluates the overall effectiveness of the planning process as well as the impact of aU maintenance best practices to promote a proactive maintenance repair strategy, i.e., PM, PdM, reliability improvement actions, effective MRO support, etc. 

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Initially there was some difficulty in performing benchmarking in departments such as repair, service, maintenance, invoicing and collection and distribution, until it was recognised that the product was, in fact, a process. It was this process that needed to be articulated and compared with that used in other organisations. By looking at competitors processes step-by-step and operation-by-operation. Xerox was able to identify best methods and practices in use by competitors. 

The baseline data set must be updated each time the machine is repaired, rebuilt, or when major maintenance is performed. Even when best practices are used, machinery cannot be restored to as-new condition when major maintenance is performed. Therefore, a new baseline or reference data set must be established following these events. 

The differences in the two maintenance scenarios that resulted in the range of corrosion-related costs were experience-based maintenance and information-based maintenance with crack repair. This difference represents the range of maintenance from minimal practice to best practice. The cost analysis estimated the cost of corrosion from 6300 (minimal practice) to 2300 per deck per year (best practice). These values show that a saving of 63% of the corrosion is possible by adopting the best practice although the actual bridge maintenance is between the minimal and best practice. 

The results will very likely surprise you. You may find that the best practices have not been followed in your organization for a long time. In order to fix the problem you must understand that the culture of the organization is at the bottom of the situation. Everyone may claim to be a maintenance expert but the conditions within a plant generally cannot often validate that this is true. In order to change the organization s basic beliefs, the reasons why an organization does not follow these best practices in the repair of their equipment must be identified. 

Participate in proper construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of assigned water system infrastructure which may include mains and related fittings, hydrants, valves, services, meters, regulators, vaults and other components using proper restraint, disinfection, and flushing methods per schedules, plans and/or the Supervisor s direction in a fashion consistent with the Utility Water System Standards and industry best practices. 

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