Nobody knows whether a spare is available
Link maintenance needs to spare stock.
01 · What is usually happening?
A machine stops, the technician finds the failed part, and then the search begins. Is there one in stores? In the other plant? With a local dealer? Each answer takes a phone call.
A twenty minute repair becomes a two day wait for a part that was on the shelf all along.
The question people usually ask“Do we have the spare?”
The more useful question“Which spares must we always hold, and where exactly is each one?”
02 · Common causes
- 01Spares are not listed against the machine they serve
- 02Stores records are kept for production material only
- 03Critical spares have no minimum level
- 04Parts used on a repair are not recorded
- 05Knowledge of where things are sits with one technician
- 06No one reviews which spares caused the longest stoppages
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01Critical spares are listed by machine.
- 02Each has a location, a minimum and an owner.
- 03Use is recorded when a part is taken.
- 04Dealer lead times are written beside each part.
- 05The list is reviewed after every long stoppage.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: A small failure becomes a long stoppage while a part is hunted.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
Nobody knows whether a spare is available
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- Maintenance
What it can lead to: A small failure becomes a long stoppage while a part is hunted.
lamplamp could answer whether a spare is in stock and where.
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could answer whether a spare is in stock and where.
- lamp could alert purchase when a critical spare falls below its minimum.
- lamp could list the spares behind the longest stoppages.
- lamp could suggest which parts to add to the critical list.
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