1. Align needs with business goals
Drake says maintenance teams should strive to align their needs with business goals and can do so in two main ways. First, focus on leadership priorities such as savings, efficiency, and compliance, and second, translate maintenance needs into business impact.
Dillion Cummings, Maintenance Planner at Riverbend Meats, spoke on his company’s experience implementing this strategy.
“What we’ve done is went through and identified the key equipment to our operations and compared our ‘need to haves’ versus our ‘nice to haves,” Cummings said. “We walked through the plant and looked at what our process was going to be like, how we were set up. [We] just identified the equipment that needs to run in order for us to produce.”
2. Use data to drive decisions
Next, Drake states that leveraging computerized maintenance management system (CMSS) data to show return on investment (ROI) and identifying key metrics that influence leadership, such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and downtime costs, are ways to use data to drive decisions.
