Chapter 2
Maintenance Vision, Strategy & Policy
These are documents forming the foundation for a systematic approach to reach high reliability, and works as a guide when making operational decisions. The vision is a long-term goal that the organisation should actively work towards. The strategy is a plan for how the organisation will achieve the vision, where as the policy is a declaration of intent and a guideline to steer decisions and achieve the desired goals.
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EXAMPLE OF MAINTENANCE VISION
• Proper maintenance provides reliability and good availability throughout the plant, and traceability through reporting in the maintenance system provides facts about weaknesses and deficiencies.
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• Through all employees’ insight into the importance of maintenance for operational reliability, we will achieve cost-effective maintenance of the entire plant.
• This will be made possible through employee engagement, utilisation of the maintenance system and respect for procedures and instructions.
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EXAMPLE OF MAINTENANCE POLICY
• Our maintenance is characterised by safety, efficiency, quality and flexibility..
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• Leadership should be visible and supportive
• We are all teachers, trainers and Fast feedback is important.
- • A maintenance technician should know and understand the maintenance terminology of the European standard (EN 13306), and have the ability to use them in practice.
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EXAMPLE OF MAINTENANCE POLICY
• Achieve high availability through consistent reliability work with an economic trade-off to meet production targets.
• The European standard for maintenance (EN 13306) and its concepts form the basis of our daily work.
• Preventive maintenance is planned and based on condition-based maintenance. This minimises unplanned maintenance interventions.
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• Establish close co-operation between
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• We use the LEAN concept and work with continuous improvement and systematic problem solving to address root causes.
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MaintMaster Maintenance Manual
This free manual can be used as a practical guide and support in the daily maintenance work and as part of the introductory material for newly employed personnel.
In this manual, you will learn:
How to create vision, strategy and policies for your maintenance team
How to build a maintenance team
Which KPIs to use and how to set them up
How to base your work on the EN Maintenance Standard
And a lot more…

- 1. Maintenance according to Euorpean standards
- 2. Maintenance Vision, Strategy & Policy
- 3. Maintenance standard
- 4. Preventive Maintenance
- 5. Corrective Maintenance
- 6. Improvement Maintenance
- 7. Modification
- 8. Case Management
- 9. Organisation
- 10. Finance
- 11. Goals & Key Performance Indiscators (KPIS)
- 12. Implementation in MaintMaster
- 13. Planning & Scheduling
- 14. Spare Parts Management
- 15. LEAN - 5S
- 16. Systematic Work Environment Management
- 17. Learn the basics of a CMMS