About The Maintenance Excellence Institute
Maintenance excellence is a journey of continuous reliability improvement and not a final destination. The Maintenance Excellence Institute is an Alliance of highly qualified individuals and organizations with the technical knowledge and practical experience to help you manage and lead your maintenance operation as an internal business. Our cornerstone value is to implement profit-centered practices and attitudes in large and small maintenance operations. Our profit-centered approach for Maintenance Excellence Services and continuous reliability improvement are focused in four main areas of physical asset management and maintenance:
 Plant maintenance operations | Facilities management operations |
| Healthcare facilities management | Fleet maintenance operations |
For a downloadable brochure: About MEI Summary Brochure (216KB .PDF)
We Build Upon the Basics:
We believe strongly in the basics and building upon traditional maintenance best practices as the foundation for maintenance excellence. Our support can be provided as stand alone, focused services. But we recommend that you “determine where you are” and then develop a plan of action with well-balanced improvement initiatives for total maintenance operations improvement. The value of our service is based upon successful implementation of today’s best maintenance practices to achieve measurable results for every client.
Determine Where You Are:
To achieve success of your total operation, we encourage conducting a Maintenance Excellence Assessmentas the very essential first step.
The Essential First Step:
A Maintenance Excellence Assessment
This important step is highly recommended and provides an assessment of the total maintenance process using today's leading methodologies; The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence, The Scoreboard for Facilities Management Excellence or The Healthcare Scoreboard for Excellence as the baseline for defining best practices needed. This step helps “determine where you” and defines specific improvement opportunities with potential savings and priorities for maximum ROI.
From this essential first step, a plan for action evolves as either a strategic, tactical or operational level plan that includes; time line, internal and external resources required. The costs and benefits of best practice implementation are clearly defined along with methods to validate results. An assessment documents your specific needs, it reinforces your resource requirements and its supports the full integration of your maintenance improvement plans with the business planning process of your total organization.
Technical skills available from The Maintenance Excellence Institute to support best practice implementation and your results are aligned toward three main service areas; Maintenance Excellence Services, Operational Services and Training for Maintenance Excellence:
- We provide capabilities for Maintenance Excellence Services that can expand to cover the total scope of experience and technologies needed for total maintenance operations and continuous reliability improvement. Project Maintenance Excellence Services begin with a core team of highly qualified individuals. But depending on your project needs, Maintenance Excellence Services can be readily supplemented from the professional skills bank of our Alliance Members.
- We provide capabilities for shop level Operational Services with very special people who can;
- We provide resources for conducting our current offering of Training for Maintenance Excellence seminars or developing custom material on new topics very specific to your operation. Our resources in this area have presented worldwide, they have worked with all types and sizes of maintenance operations and each has been in the day to day, real world trenches of maintenance. All are ready and capable to help your journey to maintenance excellence with Training for Maintenance Excellence and also to support our Consulting and Operational Services.
Manage /lead day to day shop level maintenance operations
Serve as your CMO (Chief Maintenance Officer) to support maintenance excellence across multiple sites.
Help you plan for maintenance excellence with temporary staff planner additions, allowing you to test this best practice and then facilitate a new planning function start up
Operate your storeroom, coordinate modernization and MRO materials management
Facilitate critical assets for greater performance, quality and reliability
Become your resource for managing successful craft skills development and supervisory professional developmentOperational Services staff at your site also has further technical support available from both Maintenance Excellence Services staff and from our Training for Maintenance Excellence resources.
Our Goal is Long-Term Service:
Our goal is to achieve your goals and to validate the projected results we set out together to achieve. Our goal is long-term service to support your journey to maintenance excellence and total operations success. Our resources are special people with P.R.I.D.E. in Maintenance. They are People Really Interested in Developing Excellence in Maintenance for you and your organization.
E-Mail: info@PRIDE-in-Maintenance.com
or: RalphPetePeters@PRIDE-in-Maintenance.com
