RDI has been in continuous operation for more than 20 years and our resources have the practical experience and expertise to help maintenance organizations through our trade marked Capacity Centered Maintenance TM (CCM) practice with a wide spectrum of maintenance best practices that impact the key benchmark Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). RDI associate Robert Hansen, P.E., CMRP, authored the book “Overall Equipment Effectiveness: A Powerful Production/Maintenance Tool for Increased Profits”. (This book can be reviewed by clicking here). Bob has also provided several articles to leading industry publication such as “Unleashing the Power of OEE” and “A General Tool for Acceptance Testing” found in Maintenance Technology Magazine.
Maintenance improvement typically starts with an assessment of current operations. Maintenance Best Practice assessments include comparisons to over 18 'dimensions' that are practiced by 'lean' maintenance organizations. The dimensions range from maintenance strategy effectiveness (by value stream); Overall Criticality Index prioritization; equipment reliability measures; work identification, prioritization and execution; equipment history documentation; Total Productive Maintenance practices; use of 5S; shutdown effectiveness; effective wrench time analysis; spare parts program effectiveness; standard work practices; PM optimization; PdM effectiveness; Conditioned Based Maintenance practices; use of Root Cause Failure Analysis; Preserving Failure Data practices; FMEA Failure Mode and Effects Analysis; maintenance information management systems; and Life Cycle Engineering.
RDI expertise specializes in extracting SAP (or other CMMS systems) data to provide unique analysis studies using macro and micro Pareto charts, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) timeline charts, trend charts (weekly, monthly, PM cycles), histograms, spider diagrams, maintenance expense vs. volume, risk management tables, decision tree diagrams, Gantt charts and other visual information charts as needed.
RDI combines key information from many different perspectives to assist in problem identification and solution resolution. Examples would be studies of problems by shifts, by time of week, by product, by seasonal differences, etc. In addition to their strong academic credentials, technical knowledge and years of practical experience, RDI resources posses those 'special skills' necessary for relating to people at all levels of the organization.
RDI has a successful history across many industries providing benchmarking assessments to identify major performance gaps and then supporting a one or two improvement cycles (13 weeks each) to implement, train and engage the new practices and skills within the existing resources. In this way, the current culture is given hands on application skills that immediately begin to move toward higher performance. More than 90 percent of our clients have positive cash flow within 10 months of the assessment and are positioned to expand the 'lessons learned' to other value streams for even greater ROA contributions.
Why use RDI for asset management improvement?
The main reason is to discover “what you don't know”. A gap analysis from an experienced outside source provides an unbiased assessment of 'current state' and a quantitative value of what your future state could be.
Another reason is to accelerate your 'speed to proficiency' to change your culture toward higher performance. It will give your performance a 'leap frog' step level change. Without assistance organizations often take 2 to 4 years (or more) to achieve the same results.
In addition, with new tools, methods, and management techniques you can leverage the benefits across your enterprise. |
