INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
Front Line Maintenance Aneesha Kaur Sachdev, Zingametall Singapore PTE LTD – Singapore
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info@zinga.com.sg
ront Line Maintenance (FLM) is the preservation of tools and
Performance improvement
assets in a company in order to allow operations to continually
Narayanan, Wardhaugh and Das (2021) stipulate that the improvement
run smooth transactions and avoidance of major hinderances. FLM is
of performance in the realms of maintenance works hangs in the
more convoluted than other forms of maintenance since it requires
balance between both efficiency and execution. In other words, teams
maintenance crews to fix issues whilst the assets are in use [2]. An
have to plan accordingly under strict timelines and scheduling along
example of FLM in application is when trains in metro stations are
with constructive resource administration and allocation. Findings on
delayed due to maintenance issues. In order to increase profitability and
performance benchmarking of refinery or plant operators conclude
availability of services with steady operations, workers have to adhere
that their time is being mismanaged, and around 25% of it should be
to strict guidelines and training courses for the best FLM practices. For
appointed to maintenance efforts. Workers should be able to find and
the purposes of this article, Front Line Maintenance (FLM) will be mostly
fix issues like corrosion in equipment as early as possible to increase
associated to the Oil and Gas industry unless stated otherwise.
productivity.
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