Lean Maintenance Process

Maintenance business processes are an opportunity to apply lean techniques to drive efficiency gains. Material receipt and handling from MRO suppliers can be made more efficient. In addition, proactive and reactive maintenance work flows can be streamlined to increase asset utilization rates. ...

... "To help streamline your maintenance department, group related actions into steps to help make the process as efficient as possible. This helps managers identify inefficiencies more clearly ... " ...

Via Plant Services: Maintenance processes

Airline Maintenance Lean Manufacturing Practices

UAL Corporation names executives for safety and maintenance. Maintenance exec brings practical lean experience to the position. ...

... "Mounsey was most recently general manager of Pratt & Whitney's world-class and largest engine overhaul center in Cheshire, Conn., responsible for the repair and overhaul of engines for more than 30 airlines. He is also a recognized leader and passionate advocate of continuous improvement, lean manufacturing and effective visual factory tools and practices. " ...

Via United Airlines: Vice Presidents for Safety, Maintenance

Lean Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance engineering management requires experience in lean and Six Sigma. ...

... "The candidate must be able to demonstrate a track record of adding value in their career. The candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and superb customer focus skills. The ideal candidate will have knowledge and demonstrated experience with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. " ...

Via Spokesman Review: Maintenance Manager

TPM Implementation at Sherwin Williams

Base Shares Six Sigma Management Practices

Marine base, MCLB-Albany, shares its management competencies with military partners. ...

... "At Maintenance Center Albany, he said as an example, best practices include lean manufacturing, theory of constraint and Six Sigma, a quality improvement methodology. It's an opportunity in many different ways ... to show off the base and many of the great things that we are doing, said Col. Christian N. Haliday, commanding officer of MCLB-Albany. " ...

Via Albany Herald: Georgia bases

Predictive Equipment Maintenance

Sikorsky Aircraft, leader in design and manufacture of advanced helicopters, will use SPSS Predictive Analytics software to predict maintenance needs driving customer satisfaction and aircraft safety in its helicopter fleets. ...

... "Sikorsky offers customers various maintenance assurance programs to help improve aircraft availability and operate their fleet at a known cost. Included in this offering is the Total Assurance Program (TAP), covering up to 98 percent of costs related to parts and services. The organization sought a software solution to help identify and predict equipment maintenance for helicopter customers, ultimately increasing customer satisfaction. Sikorsky selected SPSS Predictive Analytics text mining and data mining software and its Predictive Analytics enterprise-wide enabling platform to analyze helicopter and pilot data collected by the aircraft health and usage monitoring system and flight maintenance log records. " ...

Via SPSS: Predictive Analytics

UPDATE 4/28/2008: Here's another example of company that uses service innovation to drive customer differentiation: Rolls Royce. ...

Service Innovation: "Spohrer says he was told at a meeting, don't buy the engines. Instead, they buy a service level agreement and a service, so that every time a plane lands Rolls Royce technicians work to improve the engine's performance from a command centre that knows where all the engines are and at what altitude."

Lean SixSigma Military Career Path

Military commander brings Lean Six Sigma background to new assignment. ...

... "While serving as the wing maintenance officer, he developed and implemented the Consolidated Maintenance Organization (CMO) Pilot Demonstration, consolidating all squadron, maintenance and squadron aircraft under CPRW-11 while implementing Lean/Six Sigma practices within Wing Organizational Level Aircraft Maintenance. " ...

Via Dowagiac Daily News: Commander

Boeing Lean Manufacturing a Differentiator

Boeing wins Air Force contract for maintenance. ...

... "Using Lean manufacturing, and employee involvement initiatives, we have reduced the number of days the aircraft are out of service for maintenance by 19 percent, cutting costs by 15 percent per aircraft. " ...

Via Aviation Week: Boeing Success

Lean Maintenance Supports Aerospace MRO

Lean manufacturing techniques are pervading the maintenance overhaul and repair processes of aerospace companies. Overhaul cycle time is decreasing as a results. ...

... "Pulsed moving lines, point-of-use kitting, pull systems, self-directed work cells - all the buzzwords of lean manufacturing are now being heard across commercial and military maintenance and modification. " ...

Via Flight International: Lean in Maintenance MRO Processes