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SUBMIT RESET The top 10 tools to improve a maintenance organization By Sheila Kennedy, Contributing Editor approach, a maintenance strategy review will determine what is or is not working for your equipment in your location. As a means of maximizing equipment reliability, Yolton believes preventive maintenance (PM) is steadily losing favor, because the PM tasks are traditionally time-based. “Condition monitoring is the true means to predict maintenance and prevent failures,” he says. “For one, it is easier to rely on machinegenerated reliability data than inconsistent work-order data.” Benchmarking brings to light speciﬁc maintenance strategy weaknesses by showing how you stack up against the best and worst industry performers. Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group (www.anheuser-busch.com) has two benchmarking processes underway. e ﬁrst, explains President and CEO Michael Harding, is external, where personnel J participate in industry and vendor conferences to learn how other companies are managing the business of maintenance. “ ey continuously bring back ideas from these sessions that we weave into our maintenance management procedures.” e second involves internal benchmarking and audits at each plant to measure performance against goals. “ is process has enabled us to ﬁnd and share best demonstrated practices more eﬃciently.” Periodically assessing your maintenance management software usage also is fundamental to this strategy. According to Smith, the more that companies spend on maintenance software, the less return they might see on their investment. “ e problem is that usage rates aren’t rising. Many users aren’t putting the data in the system correctly – or at all.” Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group proactively enforces use of its SAP maintenance management system. “Follow-up audits make sure it’s consistently being used the same and right away at each plant,” Harding says. 27 .PLANTSERVICES. http://www.anheuser-busch.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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