AQ believes that...

• Improving reliability and maintenance practices will reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs.
• Operations, maintenance, and engineering must work in a partnership to improve reliability and maintenance.
• Basic practices must be implemented first.
• Improving reliability and maintenance is 90% about people.
• People cannot be more effective than the system they work in allows them to be.
• Busy people are not necessarily effective, people must be busy with the right things.
• Most organization knows what to do, but they often struggle to execute.
• Overall reliability is the product of process and equipment reliability.

Reliability and Maintenance Management Consulting

For many years, AQ has provided reliability and maintenance consulting services to small, mid-sized and large companies in many different countries. We work in the heavy process industry in mining, construction, steel and metals, cement, but also in manufacturing and facilities.

Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Implementation, “People cannot be more productive than the system they work in allows them to be.” A short definition of maintenance planning and scheduling:

• Planning decides what, how and time estimate for a job. Scheduling decides when and who will do the job. Planning of a job should be done before Scheduling a job.

Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Implementation, “People cannot be more productive than the system they work in allows them to be.” A short definition of maintenance planning and scheduling:

• Planning decides what, how and time estimate for a job. Scheduling decides when and who will do the job. Planning of a job should be done before Scheduling a job.
• Customized or standard on-site classroom training in planning and scheduling.
• Coaching and implementation support to improve planning and scheduling on-site.
• A common implementation initiative after a maintenance assessment is maintenance planning and scheduling.  AQ can help your organization with:

A common implementation initiative after a maintenance assessment is maintenance planning and scheduling.  AQ can help your organization with:

• Customized or standard on-site classroom training in planning and scheduling.
• Coaching and implementation support to improve planning and scheduling on-site.

Spare Parts Management

Reliability Based Spare Parts and Materials Management Implementation

Implementation support in Reliability Based Spare Parts and Materials Management builds on the idea that AQ will transfer knowledge and work procedures to your employees as accurately and quickly as possible. AQ can coach your team in how to have the right parts, at the right quality and quantity on hand.

Reliability Based Spare Parts and Materials Management Implementation In our projects, we have extracted best practices in spare parts and material management and collected pertinent information to improve implementation speed and quality. For example, we have created business processes for purchasing related to maintenance storeroom, receiving in maintenance storeroom, Bill of Materials, Economic Order Quantities (EOQ), and much more. We have also designed a process for defining roles and responsibilities for each employee involved in the maintenance storeroom.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Root Cause Failure Analysis - AQ's Root Cause Problem Elimination Process

We have named our process for problem solving training and elimination "Root Cause Problem Elimination™" instead of the commonly used Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA). We believe Root Cause Problem Elimination™ better describes the desired results of a Root Cause process. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) indicates that the desired outcome is to analyze the root cause of a failure. The desired outcome should be to eliminate the problem.

Maintenance Audit/Maintenance Assessment
Strategy, Maintenance Assessment & Improvement Plans

Together with industry AQ has developed a reliability and maintenance audit and benchmarking process based on best practices in industry. The best practices have been defined over the years as we have worked with over many organizations all over the world. We have decided to call our reliability and maintenance audit process “Current Best Practices” (CBP) since best practices may change over time. Many companies have used our CBP strategy and auditing model. They are very well verified and tested by many different types of users.

For more information, please feel free to contact us.