Maintenance Planning

LotusWorks’ performs or supports turnarounds, shutdowns and projects and we utilise a multi-phase approach to plan, schedule, staff and execute turnarounds. The objective is always the same-minimize shutdown time and costs, without compromising on safety and quality and increasing capital assets performance.
Our capability for shutdowns, turnarounds and outages include:

1. Detailed planning and organization of the work involved
2. Removal of assets from production
3. Inspection and work execution, product changes, repairs, improvement activities or a combination of these
4. Restart of the asset/plant and restoration to “as designed” performance levels

“To do more with less” – is the challenge facing all our clients. With our extensive experience we quickly identify unnecessary maintenance work and unproductive maintenance work. Altering the reactive, preventative, predictive and proactive maintenance plan slightly can lead to significant cost reductions and increased efficiencies within your facility. Best practice organisations are moving maintenance spends to predictive maintenance and reaping reward in productivity and cost reductions.

Risk Based Equipment Classification

A risk-based approach classifies each piece of equipment within your facility in terms of its impact on product quality. Using a risk-based approach positively impacts the amount of work facing a maintenance department. Our expertise rests in delivering a maintenance schedule which focuses priority work tasks on impact to product quality and categorising equipment into four categories – direct impact/indirect impact/ No impact & safety environment impact.

Validated CMMS Systems

Our Pharma clients validate 5 GMP critical tasks when they implement CMMS- experienced in utilising validated CMMS, our teams support clients or co-manage the CMMS to plan, schedule, manage maintenance work.

GMP compliant- fully trained

LotusWorks maintenance staff understand the critical environment they will support. Our staff are fully trained in GMP regulation and fit in to the training schedules on the site they support.

Documented Maintenance Activities

Experienced in following prioritised risk based documentation, our teams understand that projects and annual shutdowns can be high risk times for our clients. We pride ourselves on following policies, procedures and work instructions as written by the clients we support.

Embracing Modern Maintenance techniques

Having a range of experience across many industries has brought us to the realisation that “doing things the way we’ve always done them” is not going to help competitiveness.  Maintenance best-practice techniques- Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM), Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) and Lean Maintenance drive productivity, increase safety on sites and decreases the likelihood of equipment downtime. Continuous improvement is part of LotusWorks culture.