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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, CMRP
SMRP Best Practices Committee Chair
phone: (403) 225-7349 | rolver@agrium.com
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