If you decide to re-engineer now your maintenance organisation, you will benefit from the maintenance cost reduction that has been observed for several years, as a result of a better command of this activity.

Main causes of this trend as highlighted in studies peculiar to Cegelec and confirmed by the BIPE on the last maintenance forum in November 2000 are:

• Reduction of in-house staff (imbalance is created in age structure as staff retiring is not replaced),
• Reorganisation of in-house staff and increases in productivity,
• Transfer of maintenance operations in production,
• Development of methods and preventive maintenance,
• Enhancement of equipment reliability,
• Sustainability of investments especially on budget, tool maintenance budget.

As highlighted by the result of this survey a significant part of maintenance cost reduction factors results from a reorganisation of maintenance structure and methods development.

However only a condition report and a diagnosis of the existing situation performed by a maintenance specialist can help you in this approach . CEGELEC is this professional and can provide you with a first on-line analysis of your maintenance with the following test: