ISO 55000 - Implementation in 5 Easy Steps
I recently completed a project which delivered the implementation of the ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard for a client who wanted to link maintenance cost decisions directly with a newly revised risk profile by challenging the 15 year old content stored in the computerised maintenance management system.
There was a need to implement a plan that would allow for better decision-making, risk mitigation, a better understanding of assets and critical management strategies – overall improved efficiency and effectiveness. This is when the client decided to take a close look at ISO 55000 as a guide to improving the management of their assets.
THE FOUR FUNDIMENTALS
We chose four fundamentals from ISO 55000 that were most relevent to the company and focused on those aspects as the cornerstones for driving improvement. These were:
With these objectives in mind we went on to develop a critical asset management strategy.
THE FIVE STEPS TO DEVELOPING A CRITICAL ASSET STRATEGY
What we wanted to knock off first was the documentation and management system to optimise what we already had as well as having a process for identifying and managing maintenance strategy. We used a five step process to define the management strategy around critical assets:
1. Define the Problem
Tip: simplicity is key if you want to get trades engaged and working through the process.
2. Criticality Analysis
What is really critical? Have you reviewed the Criticality Analysis Procedure against the Risk Management Procedure? What is the plan for addressing problems with safety / environmentally critical elements?
3. Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
FMEA is a step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures in a design, a manufacturing or assembly process, or a product or service
When we got to the FMEA stage, we were able to identify our key gaps, using the FMEA tool as a gap analysis between the current state and defects and what the control was. We saw that the current CMMS hadn't identified what was critical or had a dedicated plan to address that.
We then identified 5-6 key maintenance activities that are needed to achieve a baseline reliability of that equipment. By breaking this up into a small package of work, the team were able to easily implement it.
4. Initial Asset Strategy
'It’s okay, I’ve got one single maintenance plan here.’ We wanted to get away from the scenario of working off multiple maintenance plans. As the team used SAP they were able to do some error proofing to ensure they didn’t end up with conflicting job tickets, where the scheduler or work coordinator would end up having to make the call as to which one they wanted to get done.
In my opinion, a scheduler shouldn’t have the ability to decide that. Not because they’re not technically competent; but we shouldn’t be putting them in the position where they have to make that decision in the first place. A good, tight maintenance plan system should avoid that.
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5. Institutionalise the continuous improvement process and make it visual
The team took a measured and manageable approach to plotting out maintenance plans. They addressed each discipline identifying the top 5 most critical pieces of equipment in each, and then doing a breakdown and report on the those.
Start with the basics. Choose the top five and report on those, then take the journey forward. Ideally, once the top five are done, then it becomes the top 10 and you just keep building out from there. One thing we learned early on is that to try and go through this entire process as quickly as you can, to roll it out as wide as you can, is not the way to get it done. We’ve been very systematic and quite slow in implementing it but we were getting it right, and it does take a lot of work.
Get the right people involved in the process. With building the critical maintenance plan and the detail of what a new work package is going to look like, getting the tradespeople who have worked on the machine involved is key to putting the right pack together.
Make it visual. Introduce a monthly, visual tracking standard that serves as a communication point and increases visibility for the entire team.
The client had previously looked at this but hadn't quite implemented it. They had looked at a discipline and do a breakdown of the top 5 equipment. We came up with a visual standard presented on a continuous improvement excellence wall where monthly the team could see what the visual condition was.
Green? Yep, everything is fine. Yellow? Alright, the team know we’ve got a concern there, but they have a plan in place to do something about it, and red is bad.
This visual standard gave the client a monthly metric, a communication wall that the team could go and stand in front of. That’s talking to the base level of understanding and reporting on asset condition, which is something that the team had been terrible at over previous years.
RESULTS
Utilising this approach, we achieved tangible success in maintenance management:
A journey of continuous improvement of this scale is based on challenging the status-quo and adapting the process. But above all else, it’s investing in and having respect for your people. Critical to this success was the engagement with the trades and maintenance planning teams. Asset integrity and management is not just a plant issue. It’s a company issue and ISO 55000 encourages better communication across the entire company, leading to more informed decisions and better outcomes about people, equipment and capital resources. By removing the siloed approaches that exist in many plants, asset intensive companies can gain a comprehensive view of asset integrity across the entire facility.
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