Maintenance as a Business

> Vesta is committed to helping our clients develop a strategic approach to managing maintenance as a business. Vesta can lead you through a comprehensive and progressive improvement process that delivers hard financial results.

Core Maintenance Assessment

The assessment reviews the current state of the maintenance organization and compares it to recognized "Best Practices". During this process, the "as-is" condition for the current maintenance and reliability organization is established by examining the following areas:

• Preventive Maintenance
• Inventory and Purchasing
• Maintenance Workflows
• CMMS/EAM Utilization
• Operations Involvement
• Predictive Maintenance
• Reliability Practices, including RCM
• Total Productive Maintenance
• Financial Optimization
• Continuous Improvement Activities
• etc.

The assessment concludes with actionable recommendations for improvements in each of the areas examined.

> If you have a more focused and targeted need, Vesta applies its proprietary methodologies to help customers' develop and implement specific improvement initiatives in the following areas:

• Benchmarking Best Practices
  This service compares a company's benchmarking results to the database compiled for the Benchmarking Best Practices Database and shows areas where possible improvements can be achieved in pursuit of Best Practices in the 18 benchmark categories. The result will be a report summarizing the benchmarking recommendations.
• EAM System Readiness
  This service examines the current SAP configuration and compares it to the new "to be" business process model and makes recommendations to the configuration to support the future business process model.
  
• Financial Optimization
  This is an advanced analysis that financially justifies a select set of maintenance and reliability practices and details the benefits that can be achieved by making the recommended changes.
• Inventory and Stores
  This service reviews the current inventory and stores operations, including stores locations, storeroom organizations and procedures. Recommendations will be made to insure that the inventory and stores operations will achieve a sufficient service level to support maintenance planning and scheduling efficiency.
• Key Performance Indicators
  This service reviews the current KPI's being utilized by an organization to insure:
   - The indicators are valid and accurate
   - The indicators are linked to corporate strategies
   - The indicators are being used to impact performance
  
  The result will be a report summarizing the review.
• Maintenance Functional Processes
  This analysis compares the current maintenance and reliability work processes and compares them to recognized "Best Practice" models. Recommendations will be made to configure the current process to achieve the benefits of "Best Practice" models.
• OEE Baseline Assessment
  This analysis compares the current utilization of the plant equipment to what is considered optimal. The financial benefits are calculated and presented.
• Organizational Structure
  The result will be a report summarizing the "as-is" condition and specific recommendations to help the maintenance organization achieve a "Best Practice" status. The assessment will also review all of the roles and responsibilities within the maintenance organization.
• Preventive Maintenance This service reviews the current Preventive Maintenance program, including PM tasks, schedules and procedure details. Recommendations will be made to improve the preventive maintenance program to insure that a proactive maintenance environment can be achieved.
• ROI Determination
  This analysis examines the potential return on investment for an organization wishing to improve their overall maintenance, reliability and EAM strategy. The review examines:
   - Maintenance Costs
   - Uptime improvement potential
   - Equipment/ Process efficiency improvements
  
  The findings will be presented in financial based report.
• System Utilization Review
  This review compares the current SAP configuration to the new business process model and makes recommendations to the configuration to support the "to-be" business process model.
• Work Order Process
  This service reviews all of the current maintenance workflows, including breakdowns, job planning and work execution and completion. Recommendations will be made to insure that all details of work execution are defined and then the resulting data is properly recorded for future analysis.