Enterprise Asset Management - Road to success ...
Guest post by
Krishna Ammapalayam Srinivasaragavan, Consultant, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Now a days, industries focus not only on the profit, but also on the safety, morale of the employees and social responsibility in keeping the environment a better place for next generations to come. Above said things can be achieved by adopting quality systems and environment friendly methods.
Maintenance practices in TPM
Maintenance is a business aimed to keep the Industry running in the best possible shape, making equipment reliable, productive, and secure to operate.
Most industries try to adopt the best Quality practices by way of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) ISO certifications and Lean manufacturing techniques. The main aim of TPM is to increase production but also increase employee morale and better working environment.
We know that there are seven pillars in TPM, out of which Maintenance play a major role. It's strongly believed that when the Maintenance activity is carried out and the machines are kept in good health, the other pillars like Quality, Safety will function automatically.
The other aim of TPM is to reduce the accidents in Industrial environment. When maintenance is practiced perfectly at frequent intervals then these accidents can be avoided to large extent. Maintenance activities carried out in timely fashion will help in improving the working environment a better place .
Maintenance and Impact on Working Condition
We can take example of Oil spilling from a machine.. Even though it sounds simple, it may cause below mentioned issues:
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Accidents to the Employees working in the Environment.
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Oil spill spoiling the environment with bad odor again affecting the Employee health.
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Removal of the oil and dispose without affecting environment.
Any one of the above incidents compromised then we need to pay huge price on the standards we follow.
What's the solution suggested?
Only way is to adopt Better Maintenance activities!, its nothing but avoid oil spillage.
Oracle EAM Best maintenance Practices
Oracle ERP has adopted maintenance techniques via package like EAM (Enterprise Asset management) modules. This helped in defining the Assets, Scheduling done in particular fashion without affecting overall production and many other features.
That resulted in reducing the Human efforts to large extent in carrying out maintenance activities.
Second advantage being maintenance practices helped in adopting lean practices. Lean deal with using the resources with full capacity (Increased Overall Equipment Efficiency) and zero breakdowns.. Again zero breakdowns can be achieved only best adopting Maintenance activities.
We can achieve better machine/ employee Health by following best maintenance practices. By reducing wastages through TPM, ISO, lean, organisation can yield more Wealth. Growth/ reduction in number of accidents will bring More Happiness.
