One of the biggest challenges that the pharmaceutical industry is facing is the availability of production and logistical equipment. Due to the specificity of the pharmaceutical industry and the values of the company, a new method of production optimization was developed. Developed strategy consists of 3 phases. The goal of the first is to gather, analyze and evaluate data from machine stoppages, in order to recognize the most influential losses and remove them. The second phase focuses on machine asset care, by which we ensure compliance with pharmaceutical regulations, better traceability, and reliability. The third phase tries to improve the availability of the machines through the optimization of maintenance procedures, thus eliminating unplanned failures. For achieving an efficient maintenance strategy, we also upgraded spare part management system. In addition, we develop our own variants of FMECA analysis and HML criticality analysis. With those three steps, we achieved an increase of availability of pallet manipulator from 83,2 to 94 %, reduced MTTR factor from 2,4 to 1,4 h and stopped a rising trend of spare parts stock value.
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