Maintenance Storerooms And Mro Made Simple

The maintenance storeroom is a key department in a facility. It is a profit center and supports Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) efforts. It supplies parts for emergencies and unexpected breakdowns. It contributes to improving reliability for maintenance by the purchase and storage of quality parts. Equipment Bills of Materials are kept up to date and maintained, so that the right parts, right quantities, with the right specifications are able to be determined by the buyer, and by the maintenance crew. The storeroom is an integral piece of the maintenance strategy. This book discusses the five strong pillars needed to develop a program of MRO (Maintenance parts, repair parts, and operating supplies) and the maintenance storeroom. These pillars together create a solid base to move forward and become a reliability excellent storeroom that is responsive to the needs of maintenance, the plant, and the enterprise.

This book is written for industries in search of seeking solutions on their MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom problems. MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom Management is one of the most most neglected maintenance strategies in any maintenance optimization and strategies, which should not be the case. Others say that this is the missing link to any reliability and maintenance improvement. Almost every type of industry whether from manufacturing, processing, pharmaceutical, power plants, mining, construction, aviation, oil and gas have a storeroom in place to keep their spare parts. There are two main goals of MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom, which is quite conflicting. This is to create a balance on minimizing the cost of spares inventory as well as providing all the parts and supplies needed to keep the plant operating. It may sound conflicting or contradicting but thinking about this thoroughly it is really not conflicting if the MRO Storeroom is well managed. The role of maintenance is to make the equipment available. If the equipment fails and the part is not available in the storeroom, the machine becomes idle and operation is halt. On the contrary, we just cannot simply stock every single part of every piece of equipment we have in the plant that is if your industry still wants to remain in business.The items inside the storeroom can range from 1,000 for a small-scale industry to more than 200,000 parts or even more for a large-scale industry. All industries have a place to store and keep spares for their equipment, which is needed for repairs, and Preventive Maintenance activities, but not all industries have knowledge on how to manage their storeroom and spare parts. In fact, MRO storeroom and spare parts is one of the strategies where maintenance can truly save cost big time. In other industries, the problems on MRO Spare Parts are chronic and may have been existed for decades. If industries are serious in improving their storeroom and finding the correct solutions on their MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom, this book is a must read not only for storekeepers but also for maintenance, purchasing, finance, and especially the c-level people to find out what their missing. Here are some of the highlights included in this book.- Provide a decision making process on whether to stock or not to stock parts through a MRO Decision Diagram or Algrothim- What can we do about squirrel stores and how to eliminate them permanently- Learn the basic "Golden Law" on MRO Spare Parts Management- Learn several options on what to do for obsolete parts inside the storeroom.- Learn one option on what to do with non-moving parts- Learn why not all critical parts need to be stock in the storeroom.- Learn several factors to consider before making a decision on whether to stock or not to stock parts in the storeroom- Learn a much better way of determining the minimum quantity to be stored besided min-max and EOQ calculation.- Provide the reader with a step by step roadmap on how to finally improve their MRO Storeroom- Understand who are the best people or function to handle the maintenance storeroom and why- Learn that one of the most important functions of the storekeeper is about maintaining and care for the spare parts.- Understand why improving the storeroom should be done inside and outside the storeroom. - And many more. Majority of the problems on industries can be solved as mentioned in this book if industries are willing to make changes in how they do things in the plant. Industries that achieve a level of World Class Maintenance were not born that way. They were also reactive in the past but the leaders have a change of heart, and propelled their workforce to a new direction so that they can stand off from the rest and compete globally in this fierce world of competition.

The second volume in the series, MRO Inventory and Purchasing, shows the reader how to develop an inventory and purchasing program for MRO spares and supplies as part of an overall strategy. Specifically, the text focuses on the importance of a well organized storage location and part inventory numbering system detailing to the reader the most effective ways to accomplish this goal. The receiving and parts issues disciplines are discussed in detail with a focus on the value proposition for spare parts controls and justification of storeroom overhead. In addition, the appendixes provide examples of parts and detail storage conditions that can be utilized in developing or refining an inventory storage location.

Strategic MRO: A Roadmap for Transforming Assets into Competitive Advantage combines the concepts of enterprise asset management and the associated maintenance, repair, and operating/overhaul (MRO) materials supply chain. It introduces the breakthrough Demand Supply Compression (DSC) methodology, which guides an organization's thinking and doing as it seeks performance improvement. Like Lean, DSC provides a practical path forward by changing a mind frame and the way in which work is performed. Focused on achieving a future perfect and guided by meaningful principles, organizations will learn to apply compression strategies to drive out waste, time, and non-value adding activities from their strategic MRO practices. Strategic MRO utilizes case studies from a wide variety of businesses to demonstrate strategic MRO practices and implementation — It can be successfully applied to any business where maximizing return on assets is critical to success. This is much more than a maintenance management or supply chain book because it encompasses both asset management and supply chain practices — Strategic MRO will transform your assets into a strategic advantage.

Overview No previous works have focused on the topic of inventory reduction and optimization to the extent that this one does. Spare Parts Inventory Management: A Complete Guide to Sparesology(tm) by Philip Slater covers the whole part's life cycle, from initial purchase to final disposal, and addresses issues throughout, including maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). The author, Phillip Slater, was described in a recent podcast as "truly one of the leaders in the MRO information segment." Sparesology is a term coined by Slater to describe the discipline of optimizing the physical, financial, and human resource management processes of spare parts inventory management. Sparesology is much more than just inventory optimization. It involves an understanding of the complete "ecosystem," within which the spare parts inventory is managed, and seeks to ensure that all of the factors influencing this management work together to achieve an organization's goals.