Downtime, both scheduled and unscheduled, are frequently -but incorrectly - viewed as the responsibility of the maintenance department. Unscheduled downtime is typically for reactive maintenance - breakdowns or "emergencies." Scheduled downtime is usually for preventive maintenance, project work, or planned maintenance. Operational excellence has us working to minimize or eliminate unscheduled downtime, and optimize scheduled downtime by minimizing downtime for any given goal.
In our experience, a great deal of unscheduled downtime for equipment maintenance has a root cause associated with poor operating practice - running pumps dry, operating conveyors without routinely adjusting tracking, or even poor operator preventive maintenance practices (lubrication etc). Operational excellence requires operations and maintenance work together as a team to properly identify the root causes of unscheduled downtime and work together to eliminate it.
Properly done, losses due to equipment downtime can be minimized and support costs in manufacturing costs, delivery performance, time delays, and inventory planning can be reduced through increased reliability.
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