Is Your Program Losing Momentum?
Maintaining a successful program comes with challenges
Maintenance teams jump over countless hurdles and experience numerous challenges while building an efficient predictive maintenance program. These hurdles and challenges can result in the maintenance program slowly losing it’s momentum. Below, I’ve outlined some common reasons we see that could explain why maintenance programs may not live up to their potential and be maximized fully:
- Budget | maintenance program is the first budget to get reduced
- Leadership Changes | executive management changes can result in new overall maintenance goals
- Loss of Value| the company may no longer see value in their predictive maintenance program
At POLARIS Laboratories®, we strive to establish, achieve and maintain rapport with our customers and who we call Program Champions. These Program Champions are true believers in the benefits, cost savings and increasing equipment reliability resulting from an effective fluid analysis program. As an Account Manager, I see the above reasons and changes occur more frequently than you would expect. Often times, when maintenance programs lose their momentum and begin to dwindle, the entire process for establishing a Program Champion and a routine, effective fluid analysis program starts over. Although this provides a struggle for us as a partner you as a customer – we see this as an opportunity to educate the maintenance team and executive level leadership on the importance of a successful predictive maintenance program while incorporating fluid analysis.
What do you do if your predictive maintenance program loses its momentum?
There are companies that provide solutions and services – whether it be a consulting firm or equipment manufacturer – for improving maintenance programs but ultimately, the customer is responsible for implementing the solutions and maintaining them.
Below are some practical ways to keep your predictive maintenance program from losing momentum – by utilizing existing resources.
- Establish a Program Champion who sees the value in improving equipment reliability who can train the maintenance team to maximize and execute the program.
- Keep in constant communication with the fluid analysis and other service providers.
- Partner with a reliable, accredited fluid analysis laboratory who can help the end user monitor their equipment’s condition before it becomes critical.
Overall, it’s important to overcome these hurdles and maintain your maintenance program, it could save you both time and money in the end. And, let’s face it – can your equipment afford not to?
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