What's the Hottest Performance Initiative?

Now that the votes are counted, we have a leader but we don't have a winner. Dividing the number of votes by the number of respondents who have recently launched improvement initiatives shows an average of 3.1 initiatives for each respondent. That seems like a lot at first glance, but the choices were far from mutually exclusive. Knowledge transfer and supplier consolidation, for example, do not necessarily have any connection to PM analysis.

It would seem that the respondents are doing the right thing by focusing on PM analysis and improvement because preventive maintenance is the foundation to almost any maintenance strategy.

The data shows that half the groups who are addressing PM also are employing RCM, whose structured approach leads to the selection of the most appropriate tasks for ensuring the continued function of the equipment to required specifications.

It also must be noted that three-quarters of the groups using Kaizen continuous improvement initiatives also are installing TPM.

Overall, 82 percent of the respondents have installed at least one of the listed improvement initiatives.

The real challenge is not the identification of the hottest new initiative, but keeping your current initiatives fired up and not letting them cool down before you get the results you are after. MT