Managing Maintenance as a Business

The majority of today’s companies are so busy trying to get product to the customer, or reducing costs to stay competitive, that massive losses are occurring virtually unnoticed.  These losses can come in productivity, equipment reliability or poor practices.  The end result however, is lost product revenue and costly expenditures.  The sad truth is, in many organizations maintenance is driving share price, but the CEO isn’t even aware of it.  Many of these losses can be reversed by a high performing maintenance organization.  Maintenance is still one of the most ignored components of most companies in today’s hectic, competitive, global environment. 

GMO views maintenance as “a business within the business”.  Maintenance must be managed as a supporting unit with their own set of goals and measurements to perform efficiently and effectively.  In order for your company’s production organization to produce saleable goods, your maintenance organization must produce their product, which is equipment availability, or as some organizations refer to it, Uptime.  GMO will help your company implement processes to run your maintenance organization as an efficient and effective business unit and improve your bottom line.