Actionable insights play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with preventive maintenance in manufacturing operations. The pressure of meeting production deadlines may lead individuals to overlook scheduled PM tasks at times. However, utilizing actionable insights can effectively mitigate this risk. By using real-time data and performance metrics, organizations can identify equipment in need of maintenance proactively and allocate resources efficiently to prevent potential breakdowns. This professional approach to leveraging insights not only ensures equipment efficiency but also enhances overall productivity, adherence to schedules, and cost-effectiveness of operations. Prioritizing preventive maintenance through actionable insights is a proactive strategy to maintain operational excellence and reduce costly disruptions in the future.

What Are KPIs for Preventative Maintenance Compliance?

Key performance indicators (KPIs) for preventative maintenance compliance monitor and evaluate maintenance effectiveness. Highlights: track % of completed planned maintenance work orders on time, analyze equipment uptime and downtime, measure maintenance costs, evaluate breakdowns despite scheduled maintenance. KPIs identify improvement areas and ensure efficient preventative maintenance to minimize equipment downtime and breakdowns.

Total CM to PM Ratio Percentage

An increased proportion of preventive maintenance tasks over corrective maintenance tasks is indicative of the success of the preventive maintenance program. This implies that the maintenance team is actively planning and executing necessary maintenance activities before breakdowns occur, consequently reducing unexpected downtime.

Annual Total CM to PM Ratio

Monitoring maintenance trends allows for the identification of any improvements or issues within the maintenance program. An increase in corrective maintenance (CM) over preventative maintenance (PM) could indicate negligence of maintenance schedules, leading to more unplanned downtime. Unplanned maintenance is costlier and more time-consuming, as parts may need to be rushed ordered or shipped. This can disrupt schedules, potentially resulting in overtime costs, delayed shipments, and dissatisfaction among customers, ultimately affecting revenue.

Planned vs Unplanned Tickets

Corrective maintenance is often assumed to be unplanned, but this is not always the case. For example, during routine preventive maintenance, the maintenance team may discover the need to replace components unexpectedly. In such situations, they can schedule the corrective maintenance at a suitable time without disrupting production. By marking planned corrective maintenance orders, the system can distinguish between truly unplanned work and planned work, allowing management to measure the maintenance team's effectiveness and their proactive approach to addressing potential issues before they escalate.

How Does Nirmalya Suite Help Manufacturers Streamline Preventative Maintenance Compliance?

Nirmalya Suite is a comprehensive cloud-based platform that helps organizations streamline their business processes and unify their workforce, technology, and operations. It offers supply chain planning, advanced scheduling, and cohesive business processes to empower companies in gaining a competitive edge and ensuring sustained success. The suite covers core operations like human resources, CRM, sales, service, manufacturing, inventory, asset management, purchasing, and financials, along with insights, reporting, and analytics. It provides real-time data for capacity planning, making it faster and more accurate, and includes industry best-practices, compliance, extensibility, and AI capabilities to help manufacturers quickly go live, reap benefits, and maintain efficiency and agility.

Nirmalya Suite's Enterprise Asset Management offers an integrated solution for manufacturers to efficiently manage the complete lifecycle of their assets. This solution improves equipment flexibility and maximizes value over time. It encourages collaboration between production operators and maintenance staff to collect crucial shop floor data, setting the stage for predictive maintenance.

Nirmalya Suite's Enterprise Asset Management allows for proactive monitoring of preventive maintenance (PM) and corrective maintenance (CM) work orders separately, enabling the team to designate them as planned or unplanned. This prevents maintenance orders from being grouped together, motivating the maintenance team to complete all PMs as needed. This enhanced visibility helps evaluate the effectiveness of the maintenance program, decreasing the chance of customer dissatisfaction due to delays and reducing production costs by improving equipment efficiency. It helps manufacturers to prevent problems, control costs, and uphold high quality standards and customer satisfaction.

Nirmalya Suite's Enterprise Asset Management streamlines the tracking of vital metrics, making it easy for managers to monitor the quality and performance of their preventive maintenance program. This software can also serve as an early warning system, alerting users when equipment is approaching the end of its useful life due to an increase in corrective (unplanned) maintenance, rendering the equipment less cost-effective.

Contact us today to learn how Nirmalya Suite can help streamline your preventive maintenance, reduce unplanned corrective maintenance, and make your equipment more cost-effective.