Transforming reactive maintenance departments into proactive ones requires a structured approach focusing on short-term gains and long term sustainability. While this approach will differ by site and needs to be determined by a site review*, on most reactive sites it will make sense for one of the first initiatives to focus on eliminating the largest repeat failures.

By tackling repeat offenders as a first step, you generate fast financial results and reduce production disruptions. This provides a morale boost to the maintenance team and frees employees to improve the business rather than fire fight, winning the necessary support to continue improving maintenance and initiate other important but slower changes.

This article outlines our approach to systematically reducing the top repeat failures on site. It includes identifying root causes, generating targeted ideas to reduce downtime, and project managing these ideas to successful completion. In addition, it covers how to hard wire these changes in place so that results don’t slide backwards.

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