A good Maintenance Plan is as important as the people who are going to execute it

When preparing a maintenance plan, we must take into account many factors, work to be carried out, intervals thereof, costs, downtime, resources, etc. All this without taking into account the new predictive technologies, digitization, digital twins, augmented reality...
We believe that as we prepare the plan we must take into account the technical profiles that we have or those that we must hire.
We can draw up a very ambitious strategic plan, but if for this we need profiles that we do not have to carry it out or the costs to acquire them are not affordable, it will remain in a drawer.
New technologies go faster than the labor market.
We usually think of preventing everything possible, but we must not forget the day-to-day reality, in those unforeseen stoppages where the experience of the staff we have on the plant makes them as least damaging as possible to production.
It is very important today to value the people we have in our plants and assess their ability to react at all times.

As we can see in the graph extracted from the 2020 survey carried out by the AEM, the trend is to outsource part of the maintenance regardless of the volume of the company or sector.


As we all know, as we can see in the following graph, there are jobs that it is impossible for us to carry out by our own staff, but we want to insist that it is very important that the staff we have in the plant is qualified and involved, whether internal or external, to execute our maintenance plan.

For this, within the plan itself, we must incorporate the necessary training courses with their associated costs, in this way it will depend on ourselves to carry them out.


Unfortunately, it is more attractive for companies to form more development profiles than field ones, prediction is absolutely necessary and all the tools that exist in the market help us to minimize stoppages, but we are losing the experience at the foot of the machine.


Author: Carlos Sintes


Publication Date: 08/037/2022