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BUILDING A
COMPELLING
BUSINESS CASE
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How do you raise awareness within the organization and get support for
what you need to do? You have to build a business case that can overcome
the primary objections, illuminate the need and demonstrate the real,
tangible value that your project will provide to the organization.
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By reviewing and optimizing your strategy, you Ultimately, an optimized maintenance strategy
can also maintain an ideal balance among: can help you maximize production, quality, and
safety at the lowest cost while remaining
Maintenance costs the cost of labor, within your companys risk threshold.
materials and services necessary to
maintain the current functionality of the
equipment
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3. Some spare parts collecting dust, yet key spares are not available when needed
4. Maintenance instructions consist of little more than a title or some generic text, e.g., check
and lube as necessary
6. Scheduled maintenance tasks generally only created after equipment has failed
8. Higher risk of catastrophic failure, equipment damage and major events due to potential (or
actual) equipment failures
9. Maintenance KPIs are not in place or are trending towards lower performance
10. Maintenance group isnt highly valued by the rest of the organization
Next, identify the specific types of equipment that have the greatest
negative impact. Review the work order history using criteria such as
highest downtime, number of failures, highest maintenance costs, etc.
Many times the same assets will be at or near the top of the list for each
of these queries.
NOTE: Work order data isnt always accurate. For example, a work order
type might be noted as scheduled maintenance but was actually an
emergency repair, or an inspection turned into a major rebuild. Obtaining
accurate data might require combing through each work order to ensure
accuracy.
Finally, it might be helpful to perform Pareto analysis against the RCA and/
or work order data to further illustrate the current situation.
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First, capture the scope of each event. This can include the number of
times the event occurred, its duration, and its frequency. (Frequency can be
especially key. A small problem might turn into death by a thousand paper
cuts if it happens fairly often.) Second, explain its effect on maintenance,
production, environmental health and safety, and the business as a whole.
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Downtime This can be tricky to pin Safety (EHS) impact Regulatory issues Have you received
down (and sometimes operations or any regulatory visits or fines due to
Safety Quantify any injuries according
accounting might be reluctant to do so). maintenance related events? Are you
to level (near miss, first aid, require
However, you can get a general idea of running a risk of regulatory oversight or
medical attention, lost time, fatality) and
the $/hour cost of downtime by taking fines?
the resulting impact on your business.
the annual profit that the equipment
Be sure to include potential injuries as
is responsible for and dividing by the
well. Quantify the risk of various injuries
number of hours the equipment runs
occurring as well as the resulting impact.
3. TELL THEM WHAT
YOURE GOING TO DO.
Present a project proposal for
optimizing your maintenance strategy.
Be sure to include the following:
Deliverables
Budget
Estimated ROI
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4. QUANTIFY THE
ADDITIONAL COST
SAVINGS TO BE
REALIZED
The reality is, your current maintenance practices are still saving money
over a Run To Failure (RTF) strategy. Its important to acknowledge this in
your discussions, as it helps assure Maintenance that their hard work is
valued and has already contributed to savings for the organization. That
said, by optimizing the maintenance strategy further, more can be achieved.
Compare the average annual costs associated with a RTF strategy, your
current practice, and an optimized approach. This analysis can be done in
spreadsheets or using a reliability simulation tool such as the RCMCost
module of Isographs Availability Workbench.
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To help bring your point home, illustrate the potential additional cost savings with
a graphic like the one shown below.
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entry, load sheets, or CMMS integration with your strategies, please contact us at the office location
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