This goes into the “I expect it to happen” category; you turn on a light switch, you expect the light to come on, you check your baggage in, and you expect it to be there on arrival … we are consumers, we pay for a service and we simply expect delivery of such … we (consumers) do not think or care as to the complications required to deliver the service … why should we …
At KLIA, a Top 10 International Airport … they have 26 Miles / 43 Kilometers of belts that intertwine; up and down, back and forth, like a bowl of rice noodle is an appropriate metaphor … I will no longer complain (excessively) when my baggage does not appear on arrival … it is an amazing feat in itself that it even made it on the flight … one would have to see the process to appreciate it …
Being in the Power Industry most of my career, I understand the complications of bringing power into my house … and whenever it “does not happen” … I can understand why … does not make it right, though I do understand …
This was a PMO Pilot Project … pilots are the best way for a company to implement the PMO process on a single system, without a massive investment in resources or money, to judge the results prior to taking PMO into a full, facility wide implementation …
PMO Pilot Workshop
The Pilot Workshop is the most effective way to properly evaluate the PMO2000™ process and indeed any Reliability Assurance process. OMCS encourages all our prospective clients to conduct the Pilot as a first step and most especially when our process is being compared to other Reliability Assurance processes.
The pilot program will cover a range of your most critical fixed assets and provide you with implementation assistance to ensure that the effort is rewarded. From this position, you will be able to determine roll out strategies for the remainder of assets on site. Moreover, the pilot program will provide an excellent opportunity for you to evaluate our Reliability Assurance process against the current RCM processes being implemented.
Every client that has conducted a PMO2000™ Pilot has progressed to full process roll out.
The Pilot allows you to, based on experience:
evaluate whether PMO2000™ is suitable for your operation, evaluate the different full process roll out options,
accurately estimate the cost of such options,
accurately estimate the return on investment (ROI) and pay back period, and
accurately estimate the costs associated with not pursuing pmoptimisation.
Planned Maintenance Optimization Defined:
The activity of defining and reviewing a maintenance program is one that is generally very poorly done. Not surprisingly, done properly, this process alone can be the most effective means of generating company profits through greater output from the same assets. It is a fact that no amount of clever planning and scheduling can account for a low value-adding maintenance program. In reality completing 100% of a poor program can drive a company backwards particularly if it contains the wrong type of maintenance.
The problems usually start in the design or acquisition phase where the definition or consideration of maintenance programs is poorly funded. Equipment is often delivered and commissioned without a formal maintenance program at all. In some cases one is provided, but it has been done in an inappropriate fashion and is worthless. During the following years of operation, the maintenance program develops. This often happens in an “ad hoc” manner and results in a program that lacks focus and is inefficient. Without some means of reviewing this situation, organisations can find themselves uncompetitive either because maintenance costs are too high, or the plant is unreliable.
The review of maintenance programs and failure history is an activity that most organisations undertake and no doubt have undertaken since formal maintenance was first performed. Some organisations do this continuously whilst others do so in large chunks as needs arise. Unfortunately, some organisations do not perform any reviews whatsoever. The problems of most attempts at review are that the review is done in an informal manner with little or no set procedure and an absence of useful decision logic.
Until now, the only accepted means of defining a maintenance program was to use RCM. However, there is now a realisation that RCM is a tool designed for use in the design phase of the equipment life cycle (Ref RCM II Moubray 1997 2nd edition page 19) and not for use where equipment is already in use. OMCS’s pmOPTIMISATION methodology (PMO2000™) is specifically designed for reviewing maintenance programs and failure history for equipment that is in use and has a formal or informal system of maintenance albeit misdirected. For this reason PMO2000™ is also very effective at defining the initial maintenance program for new equipment where similar equipment is in use somewhere.
If you have any further questions on the Malampaya Project or the Planned Maintenance Optimization Process, please drop me an email … or visit our corporate web site: WWW.OMCSINTERNATIONAL.COM
PMO Project Staff Training (download)
PMO Workshop (download)
KLIA Baggage Handling System (download)
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