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Implementing and Managing
a Maintenance Plan
Measuring Success of Your
Maintenance Plan
Carol Scarborough
Measuring Success
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Maintenance Plan effects many things:
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Budget $$$
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Dollars Spent
Exposure for future dollars
Utilization
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Out of Service time
Fleet Size
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Why Measure Rail Asset Utilization?
 Understand the factors affecting fleet costs
 Understand the impact AND THE COST of
business decisions on fleet utilization
 Identify problems affecting cycle time
 Understand your rail service performance
 Begin to understand the effect of asset utilization
on customer profitability
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Getting Started
 Calculate TOTAL costs of car ownership
 Lease/purchase costs
 Maintenance
 Administration
 Collect data - all CLMs on all shipments
 Build database to provide management reporting
 Convert data to information
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Rail Asset Costs
Component
Cost/month
Cost/year
Lease
Maintenance
Taxes/Admin.
$450
100
30
$5,400
1,200
360
Total
$580
$6,960
$6,960/365 days = $19.07/day
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Fleet Performance and
Measurements
Average Cycle Time Cost
51 days - Car Cost $973
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50
40
30
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22 days - Car Cost $419
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Jan
Mar
May
Jul
Fleet A
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Fleet B
Sep
Nov
Fleet C
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Fleet Performance and
Measurements
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Maintenance – Components of out of service
time:
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In Shop
To and From Shop
Maintenance Data
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CRB Data
Component information
Mileage
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Fleet Performance and
Measurements
Average Out of Service Costs
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40
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Jan
Time to Shop
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In Shop
May
Jul
Return to Service
40 days
$762
PLUS Cost of Repair
Sep
Nov
Total Out of Service Time
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Asset Utilization Measures
Summary
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To fully measure asset utilization you need to
include ALL costs:
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Lease/ownership
Maintenance
Administration
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Maintenance Management Summary
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Taking what you have learned here and
create “Best Practices” you will be able to:
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Manage cars and shipments most effectively
Understand which cars are problems
Proactively engage in solving those problems
Measure performance of your fleet and your
maintenance plan
Plan for the future
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Maintenance Management Summary
Tracking is the source
Measurement is the key
Management is the tool
Savings are the result
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Maintenance can be a Bear!
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A little Scary!
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Sometimes it can get away from you!
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The results are not quite what you
planned!
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You might feel like you are taking a fall!
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But you will survive!
But we at
DTERS
Maintenance
Management
Services are
here to help
you!
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THANK YOU!!
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