West Rand Engineering enhanced its plant maintenance and safety-related activities by replacing their outdated computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).
QBCon’s Q-CMMS ensures that maintenance and engineering managers can examine repair history, identify trends and improve the reliability of their machinery.
West Rand Engineering recently requested that QBCon add a reason field on breakdown job cards to enable them to analyze why their machines were breaking down. QBCon suggested adding in a root cause analysis module.
The root cause analysis is a structured investigation module that aims to identify the underlying cause of a defect or problem. It also suggests counter-measures to eliminate it. This concept is used throughout the manufacturing industry worldwide.
This process has been accepted, computerised and successfully implemented on the Q-CMMS application at West Rand Engineering.
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Knowing the root cause of a breakdown makes a big difference to the bottom line. While most companies know and understand the principle, few have the foresight to invest in it. I commend West Rand Engineering for taking this important step.
ReplyDeleteThe ability and vision to manage preventative is a showcase of the maturity of an organisation. Many big manufacturing shops does maintenance but has not yet entered the realm of preventative, nor the more advanced Route cause analysis. Well done West Rand Engineering
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