Everybody is talking about Industry 4.0 cool technologies, but today, more than 50% of asset-intensive companies are still more than 50% reactive when maintaining their production assets.

This presentation covers the fundamental elements required to get out of the reactive mode and establish a sustainable planned work culture by implementing an efficient multi-week scheduling process using Industry 4.0 Digital Technologies, which must be explicitly designed to ensure that the People are performing their required roles flawlessly, in order for the Processes to deliver the expected value.

- Asset reliability strategy

- IPSPEC Planned maintenance work execution cycle.

- Implementing an effective multi-week scheduling process using Industry 4.0 technologies with a dedicated focus on minimizing equipment failure risks

- Making Maintenance and Operations work as a team with the common goal of maximizing production capacity.

- Implementing an organization-wide long-term sustainment program to provide permanent value.

- Measuring and sustaining the value across the organization

Key Learning Takeaways

- An IPSPEC maintenance work execution cycle with an efficient multi-week scheduling process is crucial to achieving 85% planned maintenance work and more, which allows to increase maintenance technicians’ productivity by an average of 23%.

- Success depends primarily on People and Processes. Change management is of utmost importance.

- Industry 4.0 Digital Technologies must be explicitly designed to ensure that People perform their roles flawlessly in the Processes to deliver the expected value.