Company: ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR - Waste treatment.
Case study:
A semi-public company dedicated to the treatment and incineration of industrial, special and hazardous waste. The CEO was concerned about the production facilities’ maintenance problems; in turn, they had increased deviations in the maintenance budget and inefficiencies had caused numerous stoppages at critical parts of the waste treatment plant.
Analysis:
An analysis of the maintenance process was conducted. We detected a high downtime of suppliers and subcontractors, overstock of spare parts, absence of scheduling of work and an inexistent operational analysis.
Project:
- The maintenance process was modified, defining a scheduling of work and a productive maintenance plan.
- A new management system that allowed total control over the process was developed, creating improvement groups.
- A comprehensive maintenance contract was signed with a single supplier.
Results:
- Plant efficiency increased up to 90%.
- The set of actions allowed an annualised reduction in maintenance costs of € 1 million, over a budget of € 4 million.
