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feature operating strategies

Benefit

From Equipment
Standardization
It's time to re-evaluate the 'or equal' standard in your plant.
Al Poling, RAM Analytics

THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH to
maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO)
purchases in plants is ineffective. Buying equipment and/or repair items based on the lowest
price can have unintended consequences. The
value of lost production and related collateral
costs will far exceed any purchase-price savings
the first time lower-priced equipment fails. A
safety or environmental penalty will also far
exceed any purchase-price savings. Instead,
organizations must purchase equipment that
has been vetted and demonstrated a proven
track record of reliability. In short, "or equal" is
no longer a sound MRO strategy.
Note that the traditional "or equal" standard
has resulted in countless failures and costly
consequences. Even lower-priced items such
as hand tools can have severe consequences.

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For example, if a technician suffers a laceration
or broken bone when an "or equal" inferior
wrench fails, a root-cause analysis will reveal
the culprit to be an inferior tool that met the
"or equal" standard but failed to protect the
worker.
Equipment reliability has become a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
But those focused on reliability recognize that
not all equipment is equally reliable. The select
few who have achieved failure-free operation
are able to ship their products anywhere in
the world and compete with local producers.
They can do this because their throughput is
maximized by way of failure-free operation,
and they operate in steady-state uninterrupted
conditions where the highest quality can be
achieved.

Standardization of equipment has the added
potential to improve purchase price, reduce
working capital, and minimize operating
expense. Purchase-price discounts can be significant when vendors recognize that you are
only going to purchase their product. Working
capital is reduced by decreasing multitudes of
different manufacturer parts kept in the MRO
storeroom to support the same types of equipment. Operating expense is reduced when the
number of equipment failures falls precipitously, operations are no longer running from
failure to failure, and lost or off-spec products
losses are minimized. With standardization,
spare parts, repair procedures, and equipment
and repair training become much less onerous.
Just a few years ago, manufacturers included
reliability into their corporate vision or mission

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