Maintenance Strategy
A maintenance
strategy is a comprehensive plan that:
- Defines the asset, the performance
required of it, and the level to which it is to be
maintained
- Describes the systems and procedures
to be used to plan and manage the maintenance work
- Specifies the types of maintenance
to be carried out, and why
- Nominates the means of resourcing
and implementing maintenance
- Indicates any requirements for
in-house plant, equipment or spare parts
- Outlines the projected costs
of routine (and corrective/preventive) maintenance,
as well
as forecasting major replacements for the next 5–10
years
In developing
a maintenance strategy, two considerations are particularly important:
the level of maintenance required for the asset, and maintenance priorities.
Level of Maintenance
The level of maintenance required
for an asset, and the performance expected of it, should
be clearly established. The level set should:
- Be consistent with the role that
the asset will play in the delivery of services,
relative to other like assets in the portfolio of
the organisation
- Reflect obligations for compliance
with statutory requirements for occupational health
and safety, fire, environmental management and the
like
- Be realistically attainable, given
the age, condition and expected life of the asset
- Be capable of being achieved within
planned resource availability
- Be agreed with the users of the
asset
The level of maintenance should specify the extent
to which the performance of the asset is operationally
critical and to which visual appearance is important.
It should also stipulate the
necessary response times in the event of failure.
Maintenance Priorities
Higher prioritymaintenance
tasks (such as those that affect health and safety
or that are operationally critical) should be identified
in the maintenance strategy. This will enable maintenance
effort to be focused on these areas if resources fall
below the planned levels.
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