Maintenance Benchmarking

Maintenance Benchmarking and Assessments

Do you undertake maintenance benchmarking?

How do you assess how effective your maintenance processes are?

Often there are international standards against which companies can be assessed, eg ISO9000. In terms of maintenance benchmarking there is no defined standard.  There is only PAS 55 for asset management.  MCP's maintenance benchmarking tool, the AMIS audit is designed to assess and provide scores for the key management areas.  It has been used extensively by organisations in the food and drink, pharmaceutical, power and manufacturing sectors worldwide.  The audit provides a series of measures against best practice, and forms the starting point for making maintenance and operational improvements.

Typical maintenance benchmarking issues

90% of assessments show a mix of these issues

• Lack of integrated strategy
• Lack of customer focus
• Poor quality on failure rates and utilisation data
• Poor granularity of cost measure
• Risk based thinking not embedded
• Lack of documented processes and procedures
• Inefficient/ineffective use of IT systems
• KPIs not used/not correct, too many or too complex
• Inappropriate or no assest management lifeplans
• Poor integration, empowerment, motivation of people

These issues illustrate how there are always opportunities to save costs and improve services, even as part of a lean manufacturing strategy. Find out how what opportunities there are in your organisation to save costs and improve services by arranging your AMIS audit.   I am interested in maintenance benchmarking, please send me information on MCP's AMIS audit.

What is maintenance benchmarking?

Quality benchmarking is the process of comparing actions, processes, methods, systems between different companies.  Benchmarking is a generic process that can be used for management process.  However it is often used to compare financial measures – production and maintenance

Using AMIS audit and Benchmarking together

The scores generated from an AMIS audit can be used for maintenance benchmarking purposes, and the AMIS database enables this.  Within AMIS there are several performance ratios, including financial that can be used for benchmarking purposes.  You often need to use both for an improvement programme and regular tracking.

Benchmarking provides numbers
Auditing provides comparison against best practice.