How do you optimize your equipment maintenance budget and resources to achieve the best results?

The best way to achieve equipment maintenance budget and resources is to assess your equipment needs and prioritize them accordingly by identifying the critical equipment for your operation.

Definitivamente para optimizar los recursos es necesario conocer a detalle la condicion real de los equipos. Tambien es necesario determinar la criticidad de los activos, ya que no todos tendrán la misma estrategia de mantenimiento, por lo que es determinante considerar el mantenimiento basado en riesgo a fin de ejecutar el mantenimiento adecuado cuando el activo lo demande sin exponer la instalación a un riesgo mayor al aceptado.

-It's also important to create a Priority Hierarchy of equipment, because 2 or more pieces of machinery can go down at the same time. And would help to minimize the impact in the outputs.

One thing about maintaining equipment is the quality of the equipment in the first place. If you purchase rugged high quality equipment in the beginning there is less repair and maintenance necessary for that equipment over time. Lower quality equipment often breaks or wears out more quickly. It’s good to have the highest quality available in the beginning and then you can focus more on what the equipment is used for rather than constantly keeping your stuff in working condition.

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Having a diligent a preventative/ proactive maintenance approach is a must. Also the elements that compliment this are vitally necessary. For instance: Are your inspectors diligent and responsible? Are they good communicators? Without proper feedback from the ground up the schedule becomes just a list or index of performance. But communication and diligence are the catalyst to good assessments of problems and improvements of systems.

There are occasions that we replace a small component of a machine, but it haves several parts of the same, doing the same work and having the same age. It's cheaper to replace a batch and save the downtime or expose to expensive downtime, more often because it was cheaper to replace only 1?

There is a vendor that "creates" a virtual twin of the machinery being observed, and replicates the conditions based on the inputs of the real machine. This can observe how the variables like electrical quality, temperature, magnetic fields, etc, affect the life of the machine and how can we get to fix them before it happens, most of the time.

There is room for automation anywhere; from repairs to production labor. Components being more accessible and technology development to enhace the work spectrum of automation.

This the most important variable;without advanced knowledge, the troubleshooting will be systematically done from the most basic point. And leveling up the technicians, proved to be a reason to retain the working force.

La performance de la maintenance ce base sur trois grands lignes - bon gestion de maintenance par GMAO (curative / préventif / PDR) qui nous facilities ou on doit focaliser - une amélioration continue pour reduire les Micro-arret et le temps de changement - mise à niveau la ou il est nessecaire

El mantenimiento basado en riesgo y el monitoreo basado en condicion son dos estrategias fundamentales para optimizar los recursos de mantenimiento sin impactar los objetivos de la organizacion. El punto de partida es revisar la eficiencia de los planes de mantenimiento preventivo promoviendo la optimizacion de recursos sin poner en riesgo la confiabilidad y disponibilidad de los activos. La automatización de procesos es otra estrategia que permite eliminar el error humano de muchas actividades de mantenimiento y uso de recursos sin poner en riesgo la calidad en el proceso. Generar y desarrollar iniciativas de valor que promuevan el logro de los objetivos de la organizacion y del departamento de mantenimiento y confiabilidad.