Operational Excellence - The Path
Measuring asset performance effectively can improve equipment efficiency and increase production output.
However, since technology has transformed how assets are measured, the practice of monitoring performance has also changed, and it can often be a complex process.
Being asset management consultants and business improvement specialists, we have mastered a benchmarking process that identifies weaknesses in the chain to improve operational performance.
“The benchmarking programme that we developed is called AMIS. It measures the effectiveness of the site or organisation with respect to its maintenance and it then identifies gaps on that site between best practice and the current performance,” Peter Gagg, CEO, MCP Consulting Group.
The AMIS Journey
MCP’s AMIS Journey focuses on key areas that make the biggest impact on an organisation’s performance: equipment reliability, performance and availability; business processes; organisation structure and development; data, document management and information systems; work planning and scheduling; spare parts and inventory; and training and skills development.
Reassess Your Maintenance Practices
Peter continued: “You should be asking yourself: what sort of maintenance are you doing and with what frequency? Where can you rationalise and improve reliability by reviewing the current preventive maintenance. Also, assess which tasks you can transfer, for example, to operators as part of a Total Productive Maintenance programme (TPM) so that the more complicated tasks are dedicated to the skills that you have. How can you improve productivity, are your processes effective or do they cause delays to production operations and maintenance teams?”
Sponsoring SOE Plant Engineer of the Year
Post-Covid our commitment, at MCP, is to support more staff-related events. This is why MCP is delighted to be sponsoring the Plant Engineer of the Year award at the Society Safety and Sustainability Awards this autumn.
“We are very discerning when it comes to awards that we sponsor. This is one where the staff that we most engage with are recognised for their achievements, so it is well worth supporting” added Peter.
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