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Australian Precision Maintenance Consultants
Precision Maintenance Consulting Practice in Perth, Western Australia
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Join the Lean Precision Maintenance Revolution: Reliability On a Shoestring Budget with Limited Resources.
There is no doubt that Precision Maintenance will massively reduce production costs, totally stop equipment failures and permanently lift production rates.
The big problems that concern people with the implementation of Precision Maintenance is that it is supposedly time consuming, expensive and it takes precious manpower resources. We instead tell clients that introducing precision maintenance is not that difficult, nor too expensive, nor does it require a lot of effort. We can say that because we have a tested system to introduce precision maintenance into companies.
Outstanding equipment reliability and plant availability are the result of building work processes that deliver less equipment maintenance for less cost! You actually design your maintenance management strategy and work processes to give you less maintenance and more reliability.
It may sound crazy to expect less maintenance, but with precision maintenance in place to produce high equipment reliability, you will stop your equipment breakdowns, make on-time deliveries, produce first-pass, right-first-time quality product and meet all your monthly maintenance budget targets.
When you put into place sound precision maintenance management strategies to systematically reduce maintenance and replace it with equipment reliability, you will get consistently great equipment performance and plant availability! Successful precision maintenance show-up as exceptionally high plant utilization, best-in-class equipment reliability, high-quality production, greatly reduced waste, far lower maintenance cost and much higher profit margins.
Successful enterprise asset management is all about stopping maintenance and reliability problems getting into your operation to start with. Once the problems are there it becomes very hard to get rid of them. But get rid of them you must. Precision Maintenance will both stop and remove them for you!
When client's get concerned as to whether Precision Maintenance is worth the effort we tell them this story from Mike Sondalini:
"I had an interesting experience back in 2002 when visiting a Sumitomo Chemicals plant in Japan on a work assignment. I saw that a maintenance technician had changed out a cavitating pump and I asked my guide what condition monitoring they did on the pump. His reply sent shivers of excitement up my spine. He said to me that since they had used reverse dial indicators to align the pump and applied precision maintenance on it they did not condition monitor it with technical equipment. Sensory observation by their operators was sufficient condition monitoring.
"Their experience had taught them that because it was assembled and installed as perfectly as it possibly could; using Condition Monitoring (CM) during operation offered no added advantage. Sumitomo did use CM extensively in their business, but not on that pump which had been precision maintained. That experience helped me realise that Precision Maintenance, with its focus on defect elimination, is the way of the future for progressive operations."
Precision Maintenance is the best investment you can make in your business because its returns are measured in the 100's of percent, and often 1,000's, as productivity improves massively with only minor capital spend on a few tools and low-cost items of equipment. Precision Maintenance delivers the highest equipment reliability and the lowest maintenance costs of all the maintenance strategies.
With Precision Maintenance Machinery Maintenance Costs Drop By Up To 75%, and you get Failure-Free Production Equipment Year After Year After Year After Year...
Precision Maintenance prevents equipment problems starting, it solves the equipment problems you have, and that means you get more production, for less cost, and you need fewer maintainers. This is how Precision Maintenance achieves its cost and productivity improvements ...
- Accidents and injury incidents disappear
- More production is output from machines as they considerably increase their run time between failure
- Condition Monitoring tasks disappear, which saves the cost of using CM technicians
- Downtime becomes production uptime with plant availability / plant uptime are maximized
- Waste and scrap turn into first-pass, best-quality product always coming from equipment
- Undercapacity turns into full capacity with equipment performance consistently up to nameplate rate
- You need less parts, less warehousing, less maintainers since machines don't fail
- Precision maintenance becomes standard practice for the operation and problems are spotted and fixed well before equipment performance is affected.
Our speciality is Precision Maintenance implementation and the change management process it needs if it is to be done successfully. Precision Maintenance introduction requires planning, preparation, authorisation from all parties, and training to make people competent in doing their new roles and duties.
At Lifetime Reliability Solutions we employ a simple strategy to introduce precision maintenance into your operation in 100 days – we let the tradespeople do it. We provide the change management method and the procedural tools that let you and your people introduce, use, prove and adopt precision maintenance into your operation in 100 days; so everyone sees where the reliability improvements and cost savings come from.
For more details about successful Precision Maintenance implementations, or to request a free report on introducing Precision Maintenance into your business, contact Lifetime Reliability Solutions using the details at the Contact Us page.
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