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Goal
Focus Area
Organization Asset Optimization to
and People •Improve throughput
•Lower cost
Excellence
•Improve quality
Practices
Effective
•#1 Capacity provider
MRO Use of
Materials Maintenance
Management Resources to
Drive Down
Maintenance
Management Maintenance
Systems Cost
Capital
Project
Management

Figure 18–1 Components of world-class maintenance.

• Reduced capacity
• Quality-related losses
• Startup/restart losses

A concise definition of world-class maintenance is elusive, but improving equipment
effectiveness comes close. The partnership idea is what makes it work.

18.2 FIVE FUNDAMENTALS OF WORLD-CLASS PERFORMANCE
World-class maintenance stresses the basics of good business practices as they relate
to the maintenance function. The five fundamentals of this approach include improv-
ing equipment effectiveness, involving operators in daily maintenance, improving
maintenance efficiency and effectiveness, educating and training, and designing and
managing equipment for maintenance prevention.

18.2.1 Improving Equipment Effectiveness
In other words, looking for the six big losses, finding out what causes your equipment
to be ineffective, and making improvements.

18.2.2 Involving Operators in Daily Maintenance
This does not necessarily mean actually performing maintenance. In many successful
programs, operators do not have to actively perform maintenance. They are involved