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Maintenance Assessments

The concept of an annual assessment is well established in financial and quality arenas (and usually called audits). Should it be the standard in Maintenance too? Probably not - annually is probably too frequent in all but the most exacting environments.

So the question should be: Can a Maintenance Assessment add value? And if so, how frequently?

Taking a fresh look at any on-going business makes sense - if only to ensure that last year's improvements didn't get thrown out with last year's calendar.

So what are the benefits?

a fresh look gives you the opportunity to solve an old problem
to test out new ideas and see the impact
to ensure that standards are consistently being met
to establish benchmarks and standards for future measurement
to act as the basis for further investment in Maintenance so as to gain further improvements
to set the new priorities

How do they work? There are as many ways to do them as there are consultants who offer to do them. But they all follow roughly the same agenda:

understand where you are now
understand where you want to get to
make comparisons to the "Best in Class"
develop a gap analysis
prepare an action plan for how to get there.

Interviews and meetings will be the major theme - but they should be backed up by statistical analysis of your current position. As always, the quality of the results will be determined by:

the amount of effort you are prepared to put into it
the quality and experience of the assessors (don't forget to ask for a sample from a previous job)
the amount of time they are prepared to put into it (which translated means the amount you want to spend).

Bottom line: you must have the appetite and the resources to make a change happen.

We are pleased to work closely with Asset Management Solutions who have lots of experience in this arena. Check them out at www.asset-management-solutions.com. Or call them at 905-820-0059. Or Contact us at info@datatrak.ca.

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