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Create Departments and Production Lines (if needed). Since MaintSmart considers all aspects of any equipment maintenance operation it must also consider lost production time due to equipment failure. Production time could be any lost opportunity that may be quantified into additional wage expense due to a lengthened production schedule. This cost is allocated to the failed equipment item. Departments are also used to group equipment. Just as work areas (or engineer areas) associate equipment item(s) to a specific maintenance person departments associate equipment items to a specific manufacturing department. Why a maintenance program would want to know about manufacturing departments, you ask? MaintSmart's creators understood that to properly identify the source of equipment problem you need to sometimes look beyond just the maintenance department's area of responsibility. Production lines (or plant lines) contain departments and are contiguous groups of dependant equipment items. For example in a commercial bakery a Plant Line might be the Bread Line. This entire plant production line is required to produce a loaf of bread. This Bread Line might contain 2 departments: the Bread Production department and the Bread Wrapping department. MaintSmart addresses ALL facets of any equipment maintenance operation. |