Maintenance Improvement    Extracting maximum performance from your assets

Aligning maintenance strategy with business targets is the key to generating value for your company.

The challenge International markets increase the need for productivity and efficiency Globalization is opening up new markets for companies everywhere as well as expanding their opportunities for both procurement and sales. These opportunities create huge potential for revenue growth and cost reductions. However, as economic boundaries disappear, global players, smaller multinationals and regional companies alike are faced not only with opportunities but also growing competition and relentless cost pressures. These market mechanisms, which cannot be directly influenced, also have a major impact on share prices and the price of raw materials. Much more than just a cost factor Many companies still see maintenance only as a cost factor. Nevertheless factors directly influenced by maintenance performance such as uptime, speed and quality have a considerable impact on financial results. Production losses are “hidden” costs which need to be understood and controlled in order to extract maximum performance and efficiency from a company´s assets.

Our solution

The Business Based Maintenance integrates two products: Maintenance Improvement Maintenance consulting services including the identification and implementation of improvements Integral Plant Maintenance A long term maintenance partnership solution, Our approach helps you to decide with confidence when to move forward and implement the necessary steps to improve your maintenance performance, reducing the overall risks and focusing on the right levers. Implementing our solutions means you can benefit from: Improving the performance of your assets and therefore increasing the production and the quality of your final product, Improving the efficiency of your maintenance processes achieving lower unitary production costs, Optimizing your spare parts stocks, Routine maintenance work Improving the lifecycle of your equipment and reducing investment requirements, Inventory management and supply of spare parts Reducing overall energy costs. Maintenance Improvement - Our consulting services to support you in improving your business We help you to identify the potential... Business Based Maintenance uses a professional and standardized assessment method in the awareness and analysis phases to measure and benchmark the performance of your maintenance processes. By identifying the gaps between your actual performance and the improvements that can be achieved in a given timeframe, we can estimate the improvement potential and the expected return on your investment. Based on the experience gained in projects all over the world and in many different industries, we have identified attractive and feasible improvement potential regarding maintenance costs and production performance. The average results are: Cost reduction potential: 7.5 -10% Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) improvement potential: 2-4% ...and achieve it! By improving the maturity of your maintenance processes during the implementation phase and assuring the continuous improvement and the right level of management attention in the sustainability phase we can support you in achieving and sustaining the identified potential and benefit from it in the short and medium term. Examples of improvement measures are, among others: Alignment of the business strategy and the maintenance targets, Implementation of Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Development of preventive and predictive maintenance plans, Training and coaching of maintenance managers, planners and engineers, Implementation of a performance control system based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Warehouse optimization.

Good reasons for Maintenance Improvement

Increases in your total asset utilization, increasing the uptime of your machines and therefore your sellable production,

Implementation of new and improved maintenance processes, optimizing and assuring a higher utilization of the available resources increasing the overall cost efficiency,

Improving the quality of the maintenance activities, assuring better reliability and longer useful life of the equipments, and reducing the overall investment needs,

Reduction of your spare parts stock, the total spare parts costs and increasing your stock reliability by focusing on the critical spare parts,

Professional support in the change management process.