Spare parts planning is a strategic and critical function of machine support.
Spare parts are the critical driver of productivity. If the plant or equipment fails and there are no spares, or the means to use them, productivity cannot be achieved and losses incurred.
Spares management is a key productivity process. In addition to determining the range and depth of spares, it is necessary to be able to manage the spares for their total life. In some cases spares may be bought for insurance purposes where it is necessary to keep the spare in a useable condition for many years.
This makes spares analysis such as Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportability (PHST) a critical and essential part of spares management work.
As part of the selection of a part as a logical spare, other logistics practices such as configuration management, training, documentation, tools, warehouse facilities, and accounting need to be put in place to ensure the through life usefulness and availability of the spare.
Generally, a spare should not exist in the inventory unless there is a failure mode that generates the need for the spare, and a life cycle cost assessment selects it as a good productivity solution. A spares warehouse should not be a museum of parts.
An important aspect of spares management is to ensure that resources are in place to be able to effectively use the part as a spare.
This service considers the practical aspects of spares inventory management as well as analytical tools to undertake a more proactive and detailed spares management program.
This subject, as a course provides training on the many qualitative and quantitative issues to consider in spares management and how these issues are linked to productivity goals through providing useful spares that reduce downtime losses.
We provide this service to align the competitive advantage of the organization to outcome through Spares Plans. This alignment sets in place subsequent performance measures such as capability, dependability and durability to achieve competitive advantage. That is a closed loop system to achieve the competitive advantage with the capacity plan as the cornerstone plan.
We work with you to develop these key plans to achieve operations.
For information about this service please email Adrian Stephan to request information.