Providing Productive Capacity

A typical plant scenario is examined where the production and maintenance teams are separately playing there own games and missing real opportunities to improve plant reliability and attain the required business goals. Improving operational reliability is difficult particularly for those chasing that top small percentage of performance. Maintenance alone cannot provide productive capacity and ensure reliability. Production alone cannot provide productive capacity and ensure reliability. Frequently organisations will claim they work well as a plant wide team but at best real joint effort is sporadic and superficial. It is necessary for an organisation to think asset life management, think productive capacity, and think effective work processes to achieve operational reliability. Some key processes are described and a number of areas explored to optimise the major plant working relationships.