Maintenance Management Strategy and its Impact on Organization

This report delves into the realm of maintenance management strategies, specifically exploring Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Business Centered Maintenance (BCM). The report uses a case study of Herbert Parkinson Ltd, a UK-based organization, to analyze the impact of these strategies on organizational success. It highlights the importance of effective maintenance in reducing costs, enhancing production, and improving product quality. The report outlines the steps involved in implementing an RCM strategy, emphasizing its benefits in optimizing performance and ensuring equipment reliability. The analysis covers the selection of the most appropriate maintenance strategy and its impact on the organization's operational reliability and overall business objectives. Recommendations are provided for the implementation of the maintenance management strategies, emphasizing the role of maintenance in improving the company's competitiveness, efficiency, and long-term sustainability. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and the importance of adopting a proactive maintenance approach for achieving business goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Maintenance strategies.....................................................................................................................3
Reliability Centered Maintenance................................................................................................3
Total Productive Maintenance.....................................................................................................3
Business Centered Maintenance strategies..................................................................................4
Strategy adopted by Herbert Parkinson Ltd.....................................................................................5
Implementation of the strategy at Herbert Parkinson Ltd...............................................................7
Selection of the Maintenance strategy and impact on reliability and organization’s strategies......8
Overview..........................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The report is prepared to discuss about the maintenance of management strategies and its
positive impact on the organization’s success. While, attending a conference regarding the
maintenance management strategy, I have come to come to know about its importance and here I
will choose a proposed case study for an organization in United Kingdom and develop strategies
to support the growth, development and success of the organization. From the case study, it can
be understood that the maintenance management strategy and engineering efficiency are not
satisfactory though it has been good in terms of managing an effective workforce at Herbert
Parkinson, United Kingdom (Herbertparkinson.co.uk 2018). To manage effectiveness of the
maintenance strategies and ensuring steady business growth and success, it is important to follow
certain steps for implementing the recommendations that have arisen from the Reliability
Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and Business Centered Maintenance
strategies.
The maintenance strategy enables cost driving necessity rather than the competitive
resources during the management of manufacturing and production processes. The maintenance
strategies could reduce the cost of manufacturing and production and at the same time, focus on
enhancing the production and increase competitiveness by managing process availability and
improving the quality of products and services too. The maintenance strategy will establish good
interaction between the production and quality by assessing the maintenance point of view. It can
be understood that the production output is he actual product expected while the secondary
output is the demand for maintenance strategies, which is also considered as an input for the
maintenance functions. Thus, all these aspects are interrelated and it is clear that by enabling a

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strong maintenance strategy, the equipments and machineries will be managed properly and the
costs and equipment processes’ variation will be reduced.
Maintenance strategies
Reliability Centered Maintenance
The maintenance management strategy and engineering is considerably weak for the
weaving industry and soft furbishing industry in United Kingdom. The company managed
contacts with sewing machine specialists to ensure that proper services could be provided to the
curtain section for enhancing the efficiency of the weaving company at a much faster pace. There
were various issues regarding the lack of a proper asset management system, breakdown of
information and not selecting the right maintenance strategy. There was need to adopt a right
maintenance strategy not only for overcoming these issues, but also to enhance the market share
within the competitive business environment. Due to this, it is important to adopt the new and
novel maintenance management techniques for ensuring that the significant measurable benefits
are obtained and the available technologies are used properly too (Campbell and Reyes-Picknell
2015). Though the organization named Herbert Parkinson Ltd possessed a planned and effective
workforce, still there was lack of a proper maintenance programme, still it rarely met the targets
because of the problems of unexpected breakdowns. Another problem faced by the company
could be the lack of ability to record the intellectual capital of the workforce.
Total Productive Maintenance
The TPM process is supported including the Autonomous and planned maintenance for
strengthening the maintenance management system and facilitates continuous improvement all
throughout. It would allow Herbert Parkinson Ltd to gain a clear understanding of the
maintenance program and at the same time identify the business goals and objectives with much

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ease and effectiveness. It would also arouse interest among the workers and managers of to make
decisions at all levels of the organization to respond to changes and furthermore bring
manufacturing and production excellence (Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek 2013). From the case study, it
could be understood that the company was facing several issues due to the absence of an
effective maintenance strategy because of which, it was unable to gain competitive advantage.
Due to this, the company wanted to enable changes for bringing innovation and introducing the
new products and services for fulfilling the needs and requirements of the customers with
convenience.
By adopting the TPM approach, the company could identify the things that were missing
and manage reliability thinking to understand the feasibility of the system along with the
approaches that had been undertaken to maintain the organizational assets and for ensuring
business success. The company was also facing issues related to the maintenance maturity that
was required for obtaining the most accurate data and information (Stamboliska, Rusiński and
Moczko 2015). It could get difficult to check whether everyone would be at equivalent levels or
not and to overcome the problems associated with the irregularity of the assets and maintenance
maturity, the SRCM was considered as effective sometimes for the reviewing and maintenance
of the management strategies at Herbert Parkinson Ltd, United Kingdom.
Business Centered Maintenance strategies
Herbert Parkinson Ltd could implement the Business Centered Maintenance strategies for
reversing the sales decline and overcome the problems related to lesser profit and inability to
gain competitive advantage. The business centered maintenance approaches could overcome the
issues like higher costs of operations, lack of value and non-exploitation of scopes and
opportunities that were required for obtaining a competitive edge over its competitors (Jardine

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and Tsang 2013). Other issues experienced during the maintenance included lack of treatability
at board levels and management levels, inappropriate culture, which resulted in ineffective
budget, unforced reports and lack of a proper business plan. The leaders and maintenance
supervision lacked management skills, the planned maintenance suffered from low level, and
thus immediate maintenance management strategies should be implemented (Yssaad, Khiat and
Chaker 2014). Though the company boosted of a dedicated workforce, still the company
suffered due to the management of a proper maintenance strategy, so the business centered
management strategies could be beneficial as well for supporting choices and make the business
successful too.
Strategy adopted by Herbert Parkinson Ltd
I have adopted the Reliability Centered Maintenance or RCM strategy because of its
reliability and efficiency in managing the production process with much lesser operational cost,
though bringing out the best quality products and services at the same time. The reasons for
choosing this kind of strategy could be the efficiency that would be brought by following all
these steps illustrated below.
The various steps that could be followed for RCM included:
1. Selection of the equipment or machinery within the facility and then prepare it for the
reliability centered maintenance analysis. It could be reviewed in terms of its impact on the
operations, previous costs of repair and previous costs associated with the preventive
maintenance (Rastegari and Mobin 2016). This would improve the efficiency of weaving process
as well as enhance the production and quality of products and services.

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2. Defining the boundaries or limitations and even the system’s functions is important as well.
One such example could be the conveyor belt that could be used for transporting the goods
where the inputs are mechanical energy and the output is the goods produced.
3. Identify the probability of failures and checking of feasibility is another important step that
shall be followed.
4. The root causes of the failure models should be identified and few examples could be lack of
lubrication in the equipments, loosened belts, etc., which could hinder the successful
accomplishment o production goals and objectives (Eden and Ackermann 2013).
5. The probable impacts of failures are identified and resolution methods such as Fault Tree
analysis, Risk based inspection, etc.
6. Selection of a maintenance procedure for each of the modes of failures is the next step.
7. Implementing and reviewing the performance and reliability of the maintenance management
technique is important to check any changes and improvements that can be done (Punt et al.
2016).
The RCM maintenance strategy could also define the needs and requirements at Herbert
Parkinson Ltd and put efforts to manage the critical and non-critical equipments, functions and
systems required for enhancing the efficiency of production process. This would result in
focused improvement on every function and systems at various levels and at the same time,
provide training and educational opportunities to the individuals to improve their skills and
knowledge regarding production value. There would be planned maintenance, the autonomous
processes could be managed with ease, and effectiveness too, furthermore might reduce the costs

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of production without compromising on the quality and production value to the utmost level
possible.
The current maintenance strategy at the organization could be to manage the weaving
functions at various stages of the product life cycle and thus is stated as run-to-failure. It would
reduce the supplier time to provide raw materials and resources and would even allow the
organization to manage maintenance contract with the sewing machine specialists to manage the
curtain division as well. This would decrease the waiting time for replacing or fixing any
equipments that might not be functional. The asset management system could also help in
maintaining records, furthermore ensure proper checking of the strategies and functions used by
the company to increase the business operations’ effectiveness.
Implementation of the strategy at Herbert Parkinson Ltd
The Reliability centered maintenance or RCM could be an effective corporate level
maintenance strategy implemented at Herbert Parkinson Ltd for optimizing the performance of
the maintenance program as well as implement those on the various assets of the organization.
This effective method could also enable the maintenance strategies to be optimized, furthermore
maintain consistent productivity as well as ensure cost effectiveness while implementing the
maintenance management strategies. The four major principles of this kind of maintenance
program or strategy adopted at Herbert Parkinson Ltd could be to preserve the functions of the
system, identify the issues that could affect the functioning of the system and prioritize on the
modes of failure (Campbell, Jardine and McGlynn 2016). The focus would be on improving the
system performance and availability along with the identification of various maintenance
practices for ensuring proper availability of the equipments to keep the products and services
safe and healthy that should be delivered to the customers.

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By maintaining the maintenance strategies, it would be easy for Herbert Parkinson Ltd
for managing the safety of workers within the organization as well as facilitate the production
process to deliver the best quality output and maintain excellence in terms of quality. As a
consultant, it is my responsibility to select the most appropriate maintenance management
strategy and enhance the operational reliability too. It could also improve the level of safety of
the workers and minimize the cost of production and operations largely. Due to machine break
downs, the interruptions could frequently occur, which would not only degrade the performance
but might even cost the production level largely. The down time means the duration during
which the machines and equipments during the production may be unable to function properly
(Yssaad and Abene 2015). With the proper selection of maintenance management strategies, the
down time would decrease and the faults would be rectified quite easily too. The down time
could be calculated by finding the sum of repair and waiting time.
Selection of the Maintenance strategy and impact on reliability and organization’s
strategies
The maintenance management measures include direct preventive maintenance activities
to make sure that the equipments, machineries are cleaned, lubricated, and the wear and tear
parts are replaced as well to ensure consistent weaving process and enhanced productivity. The
monitoring of conditions would also be useful in observing the various faults and detect the
actual failure before it affects the entire production process. The monitoring of conditions
consistently should also identify the observable characteristics quite easily and determine the
measurable parameters too associated with the plants and machineries (Dehghanian et al. 2013).
The indirect preventive maintenance should assist in the undertaking of corrective actions to
report any failures or changes in parameters that were experienced.

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The Lean Sigma is an important concept of maintenance management that streamlines the
business processes and checks whether the processes are in place or not. By applying the Lean
Six Sigma, it would be easy for Herbert Parkinson Ltd to carry out a systematic approach for
reducing the wastes and deliver value through the production of best quality products and
ensuring customer satisfaction too. This methodology could reduce the process cycle time,
eliminate the chances of faulty generations, reduce the inventory level problems, enable
optimization of resources and finally improve the delivery time of the products and services
(Chemweno et al. 2015). The sewing machines and equipments would function properly as well
as the out or order instruments could be reduced as well. The partnership strategy could be
beneficial for the organization, because it would allow the other business organization to provide
supplies and introduce a new range of furbishing fabrics to remain competitive within the
business environment. There would be business expansion along with production of fabric
woven items in higher quantity and excellence in terms of quality too (Herbertparkinson.co.uk
2018).
Overview
I attended the conference on the maintenance management strategy and found that all
these strategies are effective, though the Total Productive Maintenance is the most effective.
Because of the lack of overall equipments’ efficiency, it is important to make sure that the
machineries and equipments are managed properly to ensure better productivity and further more
result in customer satisfaction too. The TPM would help to determine the feasibility of the assets
and furthermore clarify the issues associated with the maintenance maturity. The right quality
data and information are obtained, which further helps in managing the organizational assets
properly and ensure proper maintenance (Cucoranu, Parwani and Pantanowitz 2014). The

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reliability centered maintenance or RCM is considered by me as effective as well due to its
reduced costs of repairing and preventive maintenance measures.
The Reliability centered maintenance and Total Productive Maintenance; both are
effective philosophies for changing the culture within the organization as well as establish
processes for continuous development and improvements. The RCM focuses mainly on the
maintenance strategy whereas the TPM mainly is based on the people and processes managed
within the organization to transform the entire culture and identify the assets that are responsible
for ensuring successful business functioning of Herbert Parkinson Ltd . These two approaches
could bring maintenance excellence as well as reduce the chances of errors, increase the
productivity of the organization and decrease the down time and costs of operations largely
(Herbertparkinson.co.uk 2018).
Conclusion
The industrial areas of Herbert Parkinson Ltd where the processes of manufacturing and
production were usually managed should be monitored to accomplish the objective of
maintenance, i.e., to enhance the performance and operational potential, furthermore improve the
level of personnel at minimum cost. Failures could emerge due to the natural wear and tear as
well as due to the improper handling of instruments by staffs due to lack of knowledge, skills and
expertise. After participating in the conference, I managed to analyze the different maintenance
management strategies and finally found that both the RCM and TPM had been quite effective
for managing the organizational assets including the machineries and equipments. It not only
helped in ensuring successful business functioning but also reduced the costs of operations,

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furthermore maintained reliability in terms of the maintenance management measures and
enhanced business productivity.