Our clients tell us that they face the following challenges:
- Ensure regulatory requirements are met to comply with worldwide standards in a global market
- Historically low raw material prices not favourable for investment in productivity improvement projects
- Manage assets in order to optimize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through the increased availability of equipment
- Implement LEAN principles that require improved workforce and equipment efficiency and productivity
- Ensuring all control and remedial activities related to the commissioning of equipment have been completed, to ensure the efficient use of equipment taking into account the performance and overall life cycle cost needed to maintain the equipment
- Change management due to the shift from a reactive maintenance approach to a proactive maintenance approach
- Address workforce-related issues caused by an ageing population of workers, reduced availability of qualified workers and the occasional need for highly-specialized personnel