MC-98-76 TODAY’S CHALLENGE FOR TOMORROW’S PROFIT

Description:

Today’s industrial world faces the challenge of paradigm shifts. Actions taken for ensuring day to day operations can no longer follow the rules of yesterday’s patterns. We are faced with demands of producing more output and quality at lower costs and with fewer resources. The key to achieving success is technology and efficiency. Maintenance today is no longer just a cost of doing business, but a partner to the total business. Maintenance has objectives similar to any business mode, such as profit, survival, growth, and social responsibility. Yesterday’s fire fighting success is past. Techniques such as Root Cause, Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) are used for a proactive identification of how various equipment failures, human errors, and external influences can act individually and in combination to cause different types of loss events. Recommendations are made for improved activities and for meeting the challenge- of market demand.