Key principles identified by successful PdM implementations
- Identify the maintenance challenges you want to address
- Assess how easy or difficult it might be to tackle those challenges
- Quantify the impact of these challenges in terms of £, people, time, etc.
- Prioritise the challenges based on impact and “do-ability”
- Assess your current maintenance approach against the Reactive -> Preventive -> Predictive maintenance maturity levels.
- Understand where PdM is different and what it could bring to your organisation
- Understand the role Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and inter-operability may have across your asset
- Begin with a pilot initiative e.g. a single component, a single process. Identify assets to which PdM could be applied (e.g. medium-high criticality)
- Communicate the successes and the failures – both are opportunities to learn and are of value to the overall programme
- Identify the data sets you think you will need across your target process(es)
- Understand what data is created and/or used across your target process(es)
- Understand how accessible those data sets are
- Understand how, if at all, those data sets are currently used
- Identify the key stakeholder groups across your organisation e.g. Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, IT, Senior Management / Board
- Get them on board with what you are trying to do and why
- Involve representatives of all the key groups in your pilot