Hi,
I am interested on implementing cycle-based maintenance in my organization but there are some "disadvantages" foreseen which I would like you to help me confirm or understand how to overcome them. These are:
– generally cannot put materials in the plan as the system will never really know when to order them (using 100% call horizon). If the operation is so unpredictable then we need to store the materials so they are ready when the “cycle” is reached.
– more management of the plan is needed as additional records must be set up and the “cycles” fed into the system on a routine basis.
– There is no ability to leverage the annual maintenance calendar to create an accurate monthly Maintenance and repair budget.
– It is much more difficult to balance maintenance efforts across the months as you can using the Annual Maintenance Calendar for TBM items.
To deal with such points we are proposing to keep TBM plans but allowing a massive modification of start day of calls considering run time of the production.
Thanks for your feedback.