An Introduction to the Maintenance Scorecard

This article will discuss the difference between industrial coaching and mentoring and how these techniques can be deployed to grow our people, so they engage with processes and thus improve business performance.

Which costs are we interested in? Which cost is it that we're really focused on targeting? That we're saying as a team here. We're doing a business case now. Which costs can we drive down through reliability? "All of them." Agreed. Long term.

The global climate crisis has brought the harmful practices of different industries into the spotlight, and one sector that’s received its fair share of scrutiny is mining. While the mining industry is essential for so many different aspects of modern life, it’s also responsible for some pretty significant environmental damage due to issues including mine waste. 

It’s not uncommon to see maintenance departments accept goals, concepts and projects just because we are told to or because it seems to be the norm for the company. We don’t always question the validity or logic when someone influential suggests a path forward. Plant maintenance professionals should know reliability best. When making reliability decisions, maintenance needs to speak up and not accept inefficient or incorrect decisions.

Operational Excellence is the practice of continuously maximizing the potential of your people, optimizing your business processes and as a result achieving best in class performance. This best-in-class performance is repeatable if you consistently follow these 8-steps:

This article will describe the Lean Manufacturing methodology of Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), explain its value to your business, and outline the SMED process as a series of simple steps that you can replicate in your organization. It will detail examples from actual SMED events where SMED has given time back to the business turning wasted time into productivity and revenue.  

The question of whether managed in-house maintenance or contract maintenance is superior is a persistent one, and both options present unique challenges. Administration, for instance, can be a minefield regardless of the chosen path. A maintenance agreement contract, for example, is a broad subject that can lead to numerous issues if not carefully drafted and agreed upon. This means that in-house maintenance isn't always the straightforward solution it might seem to be.