Issues Facing the Metals Industry
If you as a maintenance or engineering manager can relate to any of theses issues, then the Lawson software solution for enterprise asset management can help.
Issue 1: "I need to cover up my maintenance costs."
Nothing to Hide?
Maintenance costs can be likened to an iceberg—the visible costs are above the water line while the much greater costs of systems failure are hidden below. Businesses that recognize this have often implemented enterprise asset management systems to increase visibility.
However, the issue for many maintenance professionals is support from the finance department. Often essential data such as ROI figures—critical in supporting progressive maintenance programs—are simply not being created or used to their full advantage.
Although better tools are becoming available to help determine ROI, some maintenance managers appear to shy away from using them for fear of being held accountable, thus missing a great opportunity to prove the commercial value of their work.
Lawson Gives You the Tools to Justify Maintenance Investments
The message is clear—maintenance issues need to be marketed more effectively internally in order to win support for maintenance programs that will deliver greater productivity and profitability.
Lawson Enterprise Asset Management arms you with the performance and ROI data to win internal budget battles.
Issue 2: Maintenance Should Be a Team Effort
It Takes Two
Tensions often exist between maintenance departments (those who keep the wheels of industry running) and production departments (those reluctant to stop machines when maintenance is required).
Unfortunately, the "fix it when it is broken" approach is still predominant among managers who are not directly responsible for maintenance. This poor understanding of maintenance routines by other managers is often a major problem for maintenance professionals.
But by coordinating maintenance and production and introducing preventive measures, you can help ensure that essential work is scheduled to maximize operational efficiency, thereby safeguarding production from unexpected stops.
Lawson Can Help You Integrate Production and Maintenance
Integrating maintenance and production systems is critical to achieving this goal. Lawson Enterprise Asset Management minimizes production line disruptions, schedules maintenance work and synchronizes production, enabling objectives of both maintenance and production to be met.
Issue 3: Maintenance Is an Investment, Not a Cost
Modern Maintenance: A Strategic Investment
The role of the maintenance department is much more than just problem fixing. It's about maximizing asset uptime and minimizing asset life-cycle costs.
Depending on how an organization approaches maintenance—proactively or reactively—maintenance can be viewed as an investment or a cost. Those that describe it as an investment generally make maintenance management decisions from a preventive stance and invest in maintenance before systems fail in order to sustain production efficiencies. Those that view maintenance as a cost generally take a corrective maintenance approach and accept that equipment failure will inhibit their profitability.
Lawson Provides More Opportunity for Profit
Fortunately, forward-looking companies have now discarded the old-fashioned view of maintenance as a necessary evil. Instead, the concept of EAM is being leveraged so that maintenance business processes contribute to bottom line performance.
Lawson Enterprise Asset Management can help you to get your maintenance needs understood by executives and thus also help you obtain their support.
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