Products & Services -
Maintenance Excellence / Organizational Strategy

Work Control
Planning and Scheduling
Cost Management
Parts Inventory Management
Roles and Accountabilities
CMMS Selection/Implementation
Metrics
Improvement Processes

Work Control - The foundation of an effective maintenance process is the work order system. The work order enables the identification, planning, scheduling and assignment of the appropriate resources for execution. It allows information to be fed back to the CMMS and provides a resource for information storage and retrieval. Effective work planning improves equipment uptime and craft utilization. AMIS™ provides training and guidance on the key elements of a good work planning system as well as providing shutdown and turnaround planning advice.
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Planning and Scheduling– Proactive maintenance systems are built upon a foundation of advance planning and scheduling. Maintenance planning with access to the right parts and tools maximizes the wrench time of maintenance technicians and transforms reactive maintenance to proactive maintenance.
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Cost Management - Maintenance costs are often treated as production or operating overhead. Consequently, the ability to analyze costs at the cause level is routinely limited or non-existent. In the AMIS assessments, Cost Control is the lowest scoring category across industry, worldwide. Our services include assistance with establishing the scope and purpose of maintenance costing, the assignment of accountability – what should be included in maintenance costs – and how costs should be reported. We supply useful costs metrics for high level benchmarking, as well as advice on maintenance costs metrics at the tactical/operating level.
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Parts Inventory Management - Effective control of maintenance parts is an essential component of maintenance excellence. The cost of parts may comprise 50% of the total maintenance budget. Our services include:

• Definition of storeroom and parts management procedures
• Development of parts management metrics
• Vendor and consignment stocking policies
• Parts stock level optimization
• Parts cost reduction programs (storage and purchasing)
• Training in parts inventory management
• Storeroom management effectiveness audits
  

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Roles and Accountabilities - There is no definitive approach to a maintenance organizational strategy with the exception of assigning specific accountability for clearly defined maintenance objectives to your team members. This is particularly important where maintenance is not a separate function, but is absorbed within operations groups. In addition, requirements for maintenance support must be properly defined and workloads evaluated if effective and efficient maintenance is to be achieved.
Our services include development of a plan for the achievement of strategic goals, including an appropriate level of operations team self-sufficiency through our Operator Asset Care programs.
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CMMS Selection/Implementation - AMIS helps you select and implement your Computerized Maintenance Management System requirements using a structured systematic approach. With extensive experience in many systems, and a database of over 160 vendor systems, we are able to recommend the right system for you. Using our approach will ensure that your company receives real benefits in terms of reliability, increased uptime, craft and contractor utilization, and better all round management.
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Metrics– Work processes are implemented in order that specific goals are achieved. Performance metrics should relate to the achievement of these goals. Too often, however, operating reports (planning, scheduling, costs etc.) are published as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and achievement of real maintenance goals is not realized. The proper structure of metrics is often inadequately addressed – in operations, maintenance and other business functions. Often people at all levels receive the same information, which works against accountability and increases top-down intervention. We work with our clients to define appropriate metrics at Dashboard, Senior Management and tactical/operating levels. In addition to providing a process that supports effective management, these metrics define the regular outputs required from your information systems.
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 Improvement Processes - In addition to measuring results, metrics should be used within the continuous improvement process to drive out the factors that damage performance. Improving performance should not be assigned only as the task of experts using time-consuming problem-solving methodologies. Continuous improvement requires a formal structure that enables every employee to make a real and measurable contribution to improving the performance of the company. It may be more practical and rewarding to devise and implement fifty 1% improvements than one 50% solution. Our services include development of continuous improvement programs that produce significant returns and strengthen the expert betterment processes.
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