Page 18 - Improving Machinery Reliability

* maximize condition directed maintenance
eliminate unnecessary scheduled maintenance
* employ situational use of operate-to-failure
0 employ precision balancing and alignment; include comprehensive
alignment training

0 eliminate overrepairs
0 require post-repair quality assurance such as motor testing under load
0 increase common spare parts, e.g., impellers, shafts, bearings, cou-
plings

The change in philosophy and perspective necessary to gain maximum
value from maintenance must be driven from the very top of an enter-
prise. And this likely requires education. Education for plant manage-
ment, senior corporate, and financial management is necessary to illumi-
nate the potential and benefits to be derived from optimized
maintenance. Education should focus on ways to build the compelling
vision of how equipment-asset management can and must contribute to
twenty-first century success.
Profit-centered maintenance2 is a name given to a concept constructed
around creating value. Profit-centered maintenance has the following
attributes:

e a mindset, not an accounting method
* oriented to create greatest value-not least cost
e addresses physical, administrative, and organizational processes
* uses enabling technology to the fullest
e addresses the relationship between maintenance and other functional
areas

Profit-centered maintenance is a continuing, regenerating process. It
includes a combination of life cycle optimized, value-oriented design,
root-cause ildentification and correction, proactive, condition-directed,
scheduled and reactive maintenance, and streamlined administration. All
are assembled to create maximum value and operating profitability.

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