Maintenance philosophy

Maintenance philosophy The pressure on maintenance organisations to provide maximum performance has greatly intensified in recent years. There is now a widespread realisation that effective maintenance is essential to increasing production and reducing costs. It is also widely recognised that maintenance is a critical link in ensuring that equipment and installations operate in a safe and sustainable fashion. However, it is often much less clear how these goals can actually be realised. Even when methods and work processes are available, there is often no practical tool present for actually tying it all together. Optimizer+ was specifically developed as a practical tool to support the process of developing and implementing optimum maintenance concepts.

Various issues play a role in the world of maintenance:

• A risk-based approach is widely recognised as the best way to formulate a preventive maintenance plan.
• Maintenance organisations much prefer to work with ‘generic maintenance concepts’: for standard equipment, they want to have a standard solution. They do not want to reinvent the wheel time and time again.
• An optimum balance is desired between financial results, operational results, and residual risk. Maintenance is viewed as the primary ‘control setting’ which must be adjusted to realise this optimum.
• Organisations manage their assets primarily in their CMMS. The latter must therefore also be compatible with and accessible to other relevant solutions, methods, tools etc.
  The preparation of preventive maintenance plans must serve as the basis for an ‘activity based budget.’ Instead of adjusting the budget for inflation, it must be based on specific requirements linked to specific business goals, of course including the option of setting priorities.
• Maintenance organisations want to share data and learn from affiliated organisations, within the framework of large concerns as well as smaller organisations.
• Choices in terms of maintenance must be made objectively and reproducibly. ‘Gut feeling’ is no longer sufficient: hard data based on past history or on expert judgment are a necessity.
• Ongoing improvement must become second nature. The goal is to continually improve reliability and thereby reduce overall lifecycle costs.

All the above issues have two things in common: they directly impact how preventive maintenance plans are formulated and they are all supported in an integrated and interrelated fashion by Optimizer+. This is what makes Optimizer+ unique: it supports the entire process of preparing maintenance plans in an integrated fashion, from the initial definition of business goals to the implementation of criticality analyses and formulation of specific maintenance plans up to and including the implementation of these plans in the CMMS.

Optimizer+ allows you to consciously and responsibly adjust the ‘maintenance control setting’ in order to achieve the optimum balance between financial & operational results and residual risk. You can take well-considered decisions based on sound analyses while at the same time retaining insight into the entire process. This means that you can also realise ongoing improvements based on practical results. Optimizer+ is the revolutionary and innovative tool for preparing, managing and optimising maintenance concepts. It helps you to realise concrete targets in terms of operational reliability, uptime, safety, and maintenance costs. Your business expects a certain level of performance from your equipment and installations, and within that framework, you set targets in terms of reducing costs, maximising production, guaranteeing a predefined level of safety and security, etc. Business goals are not generic in nature: each organisation has its own specific set of goals and targets. But there is one tool which can help your organisation realise its specific goals: Optimizer+. It does so with the help of an extensive and effective library function, import and export options linking it to your CMMS, and ultimately by giving you the ability to fine tune your own process for optimum results.