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A Best Practice is a process, technique, or innovative use of resources that has a proven record of success in providing significant improvement in cost, schedule, quality, performance, safety, environment, or other measurable factors that impact the health of an organization.
The SMRP plays a key role in bringing the Maintenance and Reliability
(M&R) Best Practices to it's members through annual
conferences, executive meetings (including plant tours),
conducting and providing benchmark surveys and metrics data
and developing a certification program to validate skills
of M&R professionals.
The SMRP Best Practices Committee is working toward achieving the goal of having the SMRP become the recognized standard for maintenance and reliability benchmarking and best practices.
The first major work of the Best Practices Committee is to describe a universally accepted and agreed upon set of M&R terms and definitions (or metrics) for use across company facilities, across similar industries and additionally across different industries. Such a standardized set of definitions and Best Practice metrics has not yet been defined for the M&R community. These standardized terms will enable ready comparison during benchmarking and plant improvement initiatives. And of course, within the BoK Directorate, they are ensuring consistency with the BoK and Benchmarking Committees by mapping the terms to the SMRP Body of Knowledge.
The development of the set of the most commonly used M&R
metrics and definitions (e.g., MTBF, Downtime) is well underway.
The end product will be a comprehensive "SMRP Maintenance
& Reliability Metrics Reference Book", which will be
made available by the SMRP.
A current summary of the Best Practices Committee goals,
metrics development process, example metrics and progress
to date was presented at MARCON 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee,
and is viewable
here.
For more information, or if you want to join the Best Practices
Committee and be part of the development process, please
contact:
Dick Olver
phone: (403) 225-7349 | rolver@agrium.com
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Best Practices Committee 