To keep production at peak performance, you need to maintain your production assets. Most predictive and preventive maintenance activities today are scheduled at regular time intervals and based on the manual aggregation of downtime sheets once per shift or once per day. By the time this data is collected, aggregated and reported, it’s often too late to react.

You need clear and dynamic, actionable, performance information for every asset in your facility to effectively deploy your maintenance resources where they will make the biggest impact. Knowing your top faults by frequency and duration for each cell, line AND department by shift, by day, by week AND by product, by lot and so on, is the key to driving a real-time, condition-based maintenance program that ensures you perform maintenance when you need it, where you need it – and keeps you from losing production by avoiding maintenance on assets that don’t need it and could still be in operation.

Reducing Total Cost of Downtime

One of the major benefits of real-time information is the reduction of Total Cost of Downtime – more specifically, unplanned downtime costs, which are unnecessary costs. Mitigation or even total elimination of unplanned downtime costs would make the plant operations highly efficient and directly and favorably impact profitability of the plant. To optimize your assets, you need to have full control over production systems and equipment. Usually, plants can achieve this with a systematic approach to maintenance with the following four goals:

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