The processes of maintenance management are leadership and organization, preventive maintenance (including condition monitoring), planning and scheduling, execution of maintenance repairs, recording, root cause failure analysis, spare parts management, and management of technical data. The interaction between the processes can be illustrated in our reliability productivity circle.
The Market governs the production schedule, which in turn must be coordinated with the maintenance schedule. We call this maintenance scheduling. In order to schedule work effectively, jobs must first be planned. In order to plan and schedule jobs we need:
· Coordination with production schedule
· Condition monitoring (identify early) inspections to find equipment
problems
· Technical data to find spare parts, drawings, tolerances etc.
A planned and scheduled job is then executed, after which we should record what was done in order to enable analysis of potential future problem by analyzing the root cause of why we had to do the repair in the first place. Unfortunately, many plants are stuck in the execute, execute, execute mode, where all other parts of the circle is forgotten.
The maintenance management process can be assessed through our current best practices (CBP) where we describe management of reliability in about 300 detailed “element or “statements”, we call them current best practices. You can also find many maintenance management articles in our article archive, there are over 90 articles on the topic maintenance management.