Share Good Practices AMIS-Database as a Benchmark in Maintenance
In the past maintenance was considered only as a cost factor, but today modern strategic maintenance has become an important factor of a company’s success and a strategic partner of production.
Striving to achieve increase in efficiency and effectiveness in maintenance demands an objective assessment and the international AMIS-database offers a tool for this. AMIS stands for Asset Management Information Service (see Fact-Box) and since its development, as part of a study commissioned by the British government in 1977, data of more than 4,400 manufacturing companies from different industries have been recorded. With the AMIS-Analysis it is possible to precisely evaluate the maintenance processes and compare them within your own industry or with industrial standards.
The standardized AMIS-Analysis generates strengths and improvements (= weaknesses) of a maintenance organization with comparable values. AMIS-Benchmarking allows an objective comparison of the performance indicators of one company with the average and the best of all companies (“best practices”) in the corresponding industry.
AMIS complements Total Quality Management- Programmes (TQM) and the implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and it is suitable for organizations with manufacturing and mainte-nance divisions in different industries. It captures the complete maintenance process and analyses all related resources.
AMIS-methodology ensures focus on improvements with divisions that are relevant for success. Comparable performance indicators and valid results are important influences for decision-making and they help to reach targets (e.g. increase in productivity, etc.) and visible results can be achieved with this methodology (see Table 2).
Procedure and results of an AMIS-Analysis
The AMIS-Analysis is an assessment of asset management, the execution of maintenance tasks and of implemented methodologies and techniques. Analysis and benchmarking is done by means of 8 categories such as organization, work order planning, productivity, material management, train-ing/education, safety, etc. and existing structured data (e.g. data from physical assets, maintenance activities, costs, etc…) and qualitative aspects like education and training of maintenance staff are used for the assessment.
The optimal team for an AMIS-Analysis consists of responsible employees from production and maintenance and it is facilitated and checked by a trained AMIS-Facilitator. Performance indicators and possible improvements are determined and a report of results finally documents the identified potentials and recommended measures.
Figure 1. Positioning of XY in the AMIS-/OEE-Ranking. (Source: AMIS-Database)
Table 1. Comparison of performance indicators in maintenance. (Source: AMIS-Database)
Table 2. Potentials for savings (examples).
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