In the current fierce market competition, benefit from management has become the core driving force for the development of enterprises. With a special meeting on equipment maintenance reporting as the starting point, Luzhong Cement aims at the key link of cost control, equipment management, and launches a series of "combination punches" to continuously sound the charge of cost reduction, efficiency enhancement and lean management.
Equipment maintenance is a continuous expenditure of production enterprises. How to manage and control this cost is directly related to the profit level of enterprises. Zhang Wei, deputy general manager of Luzhong Cement, chaired a special meeting to directly attack the pain points and blind spots in the company's equipment maintenance management and tighten the "cost valve" of equipment maintenance from the management point of view. The meeting clearly pointed out that cost reduction must first "have a clear idea". Aiming at the problems of extensive maintenance cost statistics and difficult traceability in the past, the company resolutely issued new regulations, requiring all production workshops to establish a fine management mechanism of "special person statistics, classified filing, dynamic updating". Through the refinement of cost subjects and the implementation of filing statistics, it ensures that every expenditure can be traced and documented, which provides a solid data basis for cost analysis.
At the same time, the data of equipment maintenance cost is collected regularly every week to form a weekly analysis report, which transforms the scattered cost data into valuable decision-making information. Through weekly summary and analysis of maintenance costs, the main leaders of the company and workshop can quickly identify abnormal consumption points, intervene in time, change "passive payment" after the event into "active control" in advance, and truly make data "firewall" for cost control.
Reducing cost and increasing efficiency is not blindly reducing expenditure, but maximizing equipment efficiency through scientific management, reducing failure and waste from the source. Luzhong Cement requires comprehensive "physical examination" and "filing" of existing production equipment, and establishes unique "identity information" and detailed "health records" for each equipment. This management mode of "one set of equipment, one set of accounts and tracking the whole process" is the key to reduce the cost of preventive maintenance. It not only helps to accurately predict potential faults and prevent them from happening, but also provides a scientific and reliable basis for procurement selection, optimization of operation and cost accounting by analyzing the historical data of equipment, systematically reduces the total cost of the use cycle, and strives to build a "healthy chain" of the whole life cycle of equipment.
The easiest cost to save is the cost that should not have happened. Starting from process optimization, Luzhong Cement firmly holds the "first pass" of equipment repair. The meeting demanded that all equipment maintenance registration must first check whether the equipment is in the warranty period and firmly hold the "entrance pass" of the warranty period verification. This seemingly simple provision, but it is the most direct and effective means to reduce costs, it forces maintenance personnel and managers to develop the habit of "seeking help" from suppliers first, make full use of the quality assurance clause in the procurement contract, turn the maintenance costs that would have to be paid by themselves to suppliers, and eliminate the "hard work of the buyer, the supplier". The unnecessary cost loss has been blocked from the source. See the real chapter in the
details, and seek benefits in the lean. Luzhong Cement Equipment Maintenance Symposium demonstrated the firm determination to transform from extensive management to refined operation. Through standardized statistics, data-driven and source cost control, the slogan and requirements of cost reduction and efficiency enhancement were transformed into concrete and operable practical actions step by step, laying a solid foundation for enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.