Maintenance Practices Audit

Summary:

Transfield Worley Solutions performed an audit of the maintenance practices and maintenance function at a food processing plant.

The audit identified the changes necessary to achieve desired improvements to the maintenance function.

Transfield Worley Solutions was able to offer comprehensive professional and technical services, calling on broad experience across several industries, to assess the client’s maintenance practices and systems.

By applying our combined knowledge of the best practices in maintenance, Transfield Worley Solutions was able to tailor the review criteria and consequent recommendations around the specific needs of the client.

MAINTENANCE PRACTICES AUDIT

Scope & Approach:

The audit of the client’s maintenance function was tailored to encompass:

• maintenance organisational competency
• maintenance skills and experience at management, supervisory and trade levels
• quality, safety and environment issues
• computerised maintenance management systems performance

• planning and scheduling
• outage planning, control and execution
• materials management
• preventative and predictive maintenance techniques
• reliability engineering methodologies
• configuration management
• modifications and capital projects

The key benefits to the client were:

• setting a benchmark for comparison of the maintenance practice against other industries
• recommended changes to organisational structure and operational practices to gain improvements in maintenance productivity
• identification of the maintenance functions best practices to give confidence to the client
• increased awareness amongst the maintenance employees of the current best practices and the current levels being achieved
• an improved understanding by the maintenance team of processes, procedures and improvement plans
• identification of opportunities and key tasks for improvement in maintenance practices