A Maintenance Audit of your facility will identify and test the critical components of your maintenance program, create a gap analysis, suggest practical corrective actions and provide a compass for future planning.
Here’s what you should expect from a Maintenance Audit: Increased labor productivity through reduced overtime, maintenance backlog and paperwork; Increased equipment availability by minimizing downtime and prolonging the useful life of equipment; and, Reduced inventory costs through minimizing obsolete and excess inventory, thereby optimizing inventory levels.
Standard Areas of Investigation
Performing a Maintenance Audit requires involving key plant and maintenance personnel to go through virtually every stage of the maintenance program from entering a work order through completing a job and putting the tools away. Typical areas of investigation include:
• Maintenance Work Process Flow
• Work order process flow
• Preventive maintenance set up and compliance
• Preventive maintenance optimization (Right tasks at the right frequency)
• Equipment structure and hierarchy
• Lean maintenance
• Parts inventory control
• Parts inventory ROP (how effectively it is used)
• Parts inventory obsolescence management
• KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Parts Purchasing
• CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System):
• Current reports vs. desired reports
• Work order backlog
• CMMS functions available and used
• Monitoring and controlling maintenance costs using your CMMS
• Work order prioritization
Your Maintenance Audit provider should spend time at the facility interviewing personnel at all levels including directors, managers, supervisors, technicians, clerical staff and IT personnel. Usually, an interview should last about 30-60 minutes each. This process can take a couple of days.
Then, the current work process flow is reviewed with the whole team, usually over a few hours. And, current CMMS software and the relevant process is reviewed.
From all of this, a viable plan for taking your facility forward can be developed and presented for your action. The result is better efficiency, better use of funds and personnel, a better-run plant!
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I think this is an approach that all corporations should be adapting to. The reason why, is because a little time should be taken out either quarterly or monthly for maintenance audits. Have a check on the equipments that are in you facility is important. Keeping health standard up to date. Having minimum damages to plants and equipments. Also through this audit, corporation in no doubt will be able to minimize their costs, increase productivity. Since large corproation cannot expect to be monitored closely it's better to leave the job to external help. That can provide you with a thorough report.
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