Report :

Whereas maintenance business has been regarded for long as non-core business activity, it has been considered since some years as a major business activity by most industrial actors.

Expertise in maintenance activity requires adopting global objectives, defining comprehensive concepts and rational methods. This is the prerequisite for optimising investments, reducing costs in order to ensure that changes will be anticipated and accepted.

Some industrial customers « have not taken the plunge » yet and the speciliased press reports disastrous situations that you will never encounter within your business if your maintenance teams observe the rules of the profession as recommended by CEGELEC.The most frequent situations recorded are the following:

• Only 60% of maintenance structures suit to objectives that are not always clearly defined.
• Only 50% of the CMMS currently operating , achieve successfully their objectives.
• An estimated 40% of industrial customers integrate maintenance as from system design.
• Only 30% of industrial customers have been altering their maintenance policies for the last ten years.

To make this situation change, Cegelec provides its customers with its vast experience in the industrial sector gained from projects achieved for worldwide companies and Cegelec units. It also provides its technical expertise developed in maintenance activities.

Maintenance activities:

Cegelec's maintenance business portfolio covers all missions usually alloted to the maintenance function, including maintenance engineering, production of maintenance resources and on-site maintenance.

Challenges :

Economic objectives:

• Reducing and controlling costs.
• Turning fixed expenses into variable costs.
• Improving economic ratios.
• Minimising spares stock.

Technical objectives:

• Improving equipment availability and performance.
• Optimising service quality.
• Developing efficient methods.
• Implementing most advanced technologies.

Human Resources objectives:

• Managing capabilities.
• Streamlining in-house management.
• Contributing to staff fulfilment.
• Optimising human resources.