Hi Folks. I'd like to know if any forum participants has a document they could share/upload that can help me determine the maintenance effectiveness of a maintenance department. I am specifically interested in a PHASE 0, 1 or 2 (establishing a whether the department is at the beginner, infant or toddler stages of maintenance effectiveness). If there are none available, what 20-25 questions would one ask
to grade a maintenance department's effectiveness (below or above toddler (phase 0-1-2))? These are the initial questions I came up with:
1 - Is/Are there a Plant Maintenance Policy/Policies available?
2 - Does the Mx Dept. have a strategy that defines the organization of their Maintenance Methods and their missions?
3 - Is there an Equipment Criticality Matrix?
4 - Has a level of criticality for each equipment been set (e.g. Critical / Essential / Non-Essential)?
5 - Is there a maintenance library or technical resource center that employees can access in house?
6 - Is there a formalized process to ensure the updating of equipment information?
7 - Is there any indication that the maintenance department is practicing 5S?
8 - Is there any indication of safe LOTO practices (i.e.. LOTO board, communications board,…)? Is LOTO followed and is it an essential part of each task?
9 - Is there a formal registration system for maintenance data? It can be a CMMS or any other WO recording and or tracking system.
10 - Is there a skills management system?
11 - Is there a formal system to upload/analyze equipment failures?
12 - Is there a Production and Maintenance planning session to allow maintenance plans to take place within production restraints?
13 - Does the department have KPI's for each section/area of the department?
14 - Is there a formalized method/system for measuring technological advances and its uses? (i.e.. predictive technologies advances; computer/programming advances; etc.)
IYO - What else could be initially important to know?
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Daniel Vega
Reliability Manager - PDM Techologies
Hope Mills NC
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