The Importance of Roles & Responsibilities

How often to you find people duplicating work, or work not being completed? What about tasks being started by one person, to be completed by another?

As organizations continue to do more with less, ensuring everyone is on the same page and pulling their weight becomes increasing important. The lines of communications, expectations, and alignment on achieving the vision of the organization are critical to the success of a maintenance department.

Often most people are put into positions without fully knowing what they are responsible for and accountable for.
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Unlocking Wrench Time with Parts Kitting

Implementing Parts Kitting is challenging as doing so requires numerous systems, processes, and people to work together. This paper describes appropriate steps for successful implementation of Parts Kitting in a sustainable manner and outlines pitfalls to avoid.

At an average facility, maintenance staff wrench time is approximately 30% (Figure 1). That means that they only spent this amount of their time performing repairs and Preventative Maintenance or other value added work. The rest of the time is lost for a variety of reasons. Businesses work to address this lack in efficiency by implementing a maintenance planning & scheduling functions. When properly implemented, many realize the benefits in craft efficiency. However, improper implementation of these planning and scheduling functions leads to minimal or no improvement in work productivity. One of the main reasons for this lack of improvement is the time the craft spend traveling & looking for parts.
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