Does your plant celebrate the speed at which failure is repaired or the lack of failure occurrences?\u00a0 Think about the purpose of your maintenance program.\u00a0 Is your main objective putting out fires or are you focused on predictive maintenance?\u00a0 Many plants tend to celebrate how fast a machine is repaired and put back to work and seldom put emphasis on celebrating the reduced occurrence of failure and the increased levels of machine availability.\u00a0 A true predictive maintenance program should be more proactive than reactive.\u00a0 Your program should emphasize routine planned activities focused on monitoring and controlling root causes, which will ultimately diminish the frequency of machine failures.<\/p>\n
Many programs focus only on measuring machine conditions and completely miss the opportunity to measure the generated benefits their oil analysis program has produced.\u00a0 Tracking such things as machine availability, replacement parts costs, labor hours on planned and unplanned activities, and lubricant consumption are also important.\u00a0 In order to do this you should identify benchmarks early on so you have something to rank improvements against.<\/p>\n
It is wise to have procedures in place to document savings.\u00a0 This will provide you with information that can help you and your management team set up a cost-saving program.\u00a0 If a milestone is reached or if you are notified of a problem which saves a piece of equipment the value is proven.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget to celebrate and reward these successes at all levels of your plant.<\/p>\n
Your lab should provide monthly management reports to help you track your oil analysis program\u2019s progress.\u00a0 A good example is a sample compliance report, which is a report that tells you if all of your samples have been taken for the month. \u00a0And if they were not taken, you need to know why.\u00a0 Possibly your equipment was down, maybe maintenance is being performed, or the areas around the equipment were roped off and samplers could not get to the equipment.\u00a0 Reports should also help you understand why significant changes are occurring with your equipment.\u00a0 How are your marginals and criticals reducing overtime; why is particle count starting to creep up?\u00a0 These types of questions can all be answered if you have reliable management tracking tools.<\/p>\n
Most labs have the ability to compare your oil analysis program with other programs throughout the industry.\u00a0 It is a valuable \u201cchecks and balances\u201d process that should be offered by all labs, but it generally is not.\u00a0 Ask that the lab give you a phone call or come on-site and sit down with you to talk to you about your program.\u00a0 You have the right to know how your oil analysis program is doing.\u00a0 And sometimes you have to be the one asked the right questions.<\/p>\n
About TestOil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n
With more than 30 years of experience in the oil analysis industry, TestOil focuses exclusively on assisting industrial facilities with reducing maintenance costs and avoiding unexpected downtime through oil analysis program implementation. As industry experts in diagnosing oil-related issues in equipment such as turbines, hydraulics, gearboxes, pumps, compressors and diesel generators, TestOil provides customers with a guarantee of same-day turnaround on all routine testing. With in-house certified training professionals, TestOil offers lubrication and oil analysis training, private onsite training, certification training and exams, and educational webinars. For more information on partnering with TestOil on oil analysis programs or training opportunities visit www.testoil.com<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Contact us: 216-251-2510; sales@testoil.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Inadequate Performance Tracking Your Problem? Does your plant celebrate the speed at which failure is repaired or the lack of failure occurrences?\u00a0 Think about the purpose of your maintenance program.\u00a0 Is your main objective putting out fires or are you focused on predictive maintenance?\u00a0 Many plants tend to celebrate how fast a machine is repaired and put back to Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-management","tag-program","cat-400-id"],"yoast_head":"\n