A manufacturing facility can’t operate without a maintenance team. Frankly, most businesses can’t. In one way or another, we all rely on different machines and infrastructure to deliver our products and services.
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To avoid expensive, unexpected breakdowns and keep assets in good operating condition, the maintenance staff is tasked with a lot of routine preventive maintenance work.
However, there can be too much of a good thing. You wouldn’t buy new tires for your car if the current ones are still in good condition, right? Similarly, maintenance managers do not want to schedule work that is not necessary. Doing unnecessary work adds expense, requires extra coordination, and of course adds additional planned downtime. All of which limit a manufacturing’s facility production output.
This begs the question, “How do you eliminate excessive maintenance from your production floor, and only do the work that is needed?”
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How to Eliminate Excessive Maintenance - Medical Equipment
Bryan is entirely correct. Performing maintenance by blindly following manufacturers' recommendations is not only costly but also reduces productivity. This has been proven in the case of medical equipment (which often directly affect patient's lives and wellbeing). After insisting on folowing manufacturers' recommendations for several decades, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally accepted evidence presented by the clinical engineering community and since 2013 has been allowing the adoption of the "alternate equipment management" (AEM) program (with some exceptions). Through basic root-cause-analyses of the equipment failures, it is possible to determine the best alternative maintenance strategy that will keep medical equipment safe and reliable with minimal resource investment and, at the same time, not reduce clinical productivity (i.e., keep equipment available for care delivery). This approach has been named "Evidence-Based Maintenance" to help the clincial professionals understand the rationale used is analogous to the Evidence-Based Medicine that they are trained to practice. There are now many articles and even a book published on this subject.
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