Reliability-focused Spare Parts Management and Materials Management for the Maintenance Storeroom

IDCON’s Consulting and Training in Spare Parts Management

A typical Reliability-focused Spare Parts Management Project by IDCON may include:

1. A Reliability-focused spare parts management assessment or possibly a complete reliability and maintenance assessment. The assessment will help IDCON understand your plant better. The audit will also create plant awareness regarding best maintenance storeroom practices and help the plant discover the spare parts management improvement potential.
2. IDCON believes customized training is more effective than generic training. We therefore suggest you let us customize the maintenance storeroom training by using examples from your plant. The training combines classroom lecturing with practical exercises and plant studies.
3. The most difficult step in improving is not to understand what needs to be done, the most difficult step is to institute changed behaviors and work practices in the plant. IDCON therefore offers on-the-job consulting and training. We can help you full time, but think a better solution is for us to visit for shorter periods and then give the plant “practice time” which we follow-up on upon our next visit.

Spare Parts Management and an organized maintenance storeroom is one of the key processes which support effective maintenance planning and scheduling and equipment reliability improvement.

Improved materials management and spare parts management will free up time for maintenance planners, maintenance supervisors, and hourly maintenance personnel. It is not unusual to see an average of 20-30% of maintenance crafts people’s time to be used for finding parts and material.

In a typical established plant, applying the techniques learned from this seminar can produce these results:

• Reduce Maintenance Planner's work load by up to 50%
• Reduce inventory-replenishment purchase orders by up to 60%
• Reduce manually-prepared direct purchase requisitions by up to 80%
• Reduce maintenance Storeroom inventories by 30%, while increasing reliability
• Provide new measures for tracking plant reliability