Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Hi everybody

If you are top management such as Vice president of Maintenance. What maintenance information do you need for maintenance decision making and support reliability improvement?

If so, I want to know:
1. Maintenance cost monitoring in monthly or yearly. Let say your maintenace cost this year 100 million, I will ask for cost reduction, next year if I give you 120 million could it possible to have yearly maintenance cost at 90 million for next 3-4 year.
2. What maintenace tasks you plan in next year, how much cost and when I have to bring cash for it.
3.I don't know what reliability is I just want the plant alway running enough for sale volume.

I think I am CEO

Short answer: I need...

1. Real cost (measured and trustworthy)
2. Lost production (we better know!)
3. Accurate RCE (with a QA program)

Here is what I would do with it:

I would see if we had any repeating and substantial “lost production” events during the last 5 years. Gather all “real” moneys attributed to the machine repair and reduced production. We need to ensure the root cause is accurate! Then I would apply up to 10% of the $$ to the best proactive measure identified in the RCE.

Holy bottle necks and barriers batman!