Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation in Preventive Maintenance: Case Study in AB Furniture Company
Abstract: Many manufacturing
plants still use corrective policies in their plant maintenance practice. Often
it is too late for the managers to react upon their plants performance reports
such as losses due to plant unavailability, performance inefficiency and
dropping rate of quality. Neglect of the preventive maintenance planning is a
great disadvantage in any manufacturing system. If such a system is ever going
to reach perfect one-at-a-time manufacturing, there is no time for failed or
wasted parts or standstill. Therefore, the availability of real time data of
plant equipment and process history to enhance the discovery of opportunities
for manufacturing optimization is imperative. This paper describes the
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system concept in the Preventive Maintenance
(PM) practice, and in other part presents the case of AB Furniture where
ineffective maintenance practices are being carried in one of the components of
Manufacturing and Planning Control. The AB company objective is to maximize all
possible values in their products. Therefore, the company must compete on the
basis of Cost Leadership thereby focusing on elimination of waste, economies of
scale, cost reduction and more returns from an initial invested asset in their
mainstay of their operations. However, their maintenance operations, such as
ineffective spare parts management and ineffective maintenance work orders,
contradict their capabilities to compete on the basis of Cost Leadership thus
pose a strategic threat. Consequently, to counter this threat, this paper
recommends adoption of maintenance practices purported by their pre-installed
ERP system and the adoption of PM philosophy supported by that system. Using
ERP system to measure maintenance practices performance indicator coupled with
Maintenance Work Order Analysis, AB Company will be in better position to
identify on how to optimize their maintenance activities in the future.
Penulis: Indra Cahyadi
Kode Jurnal: jptindustridd080090
