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Untap the Hidden Potential From Your Asset Base

The upside to asset reliability is controlling unit costs and even reducing them, improving operational effectiveness as a dependable supply chain partner, and finding that hidden plant within operations that can defer major capital expenditures.

Download your free copy of the “Asset Reliability Roadmap for the Consumer Products Industry” at www.opxleadershipnetwork.org/maintenance/download/asset-reliability-roadmap.
Download your free copy of the “Asset Reliability Roadmap for the Consumer Products Industry” at www.opxleadershipnetwork.org/maintenance/download/asset-reliability-roadmap.
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For years, participants of the OpX Leadership Network have discussed how to drive awareness of asset reliability and its substantial, untapped potential for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers to positively impact their output reliability.

Earlier this year, the OpX Leadership Network published the “Asset Reliability Roadmap for the Consumer Products Industry.” This document provides leadership guidance and insights to improve asset reliability within a CPG company and enable dialogue with key OEMs to engage in the effort.

During the same time, the FSO Institute, a facilitator in the development of the Asset Reliability Roadmap, launched a Manufacturing Health Assessment survey on the topic to establish an industry baseline to provide the data to make better decision-making. The preliminary findings from the FSO Institute’s Manufacturing Health Assessment survey on asset reliability (described as the absence of unplanned downtime achieved through both maintenance and operational effectiveness) is being shared publicly for the first time.

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The key findings include:

  • Significant upside opportunity for the CPG industry: Over 43% of respondents consider their companies as beginners in the journey to asset reliability. Another 37% have entered the intermediate stage.
  • Diminishing confidence in flexibility or nimbleness to meet future needs: While 68% have confidence in current capabilities, the uncertainty of the future takes that positive outlook to less than 50% over the next three years and meeting e-commerce requirements down to 25% positivity.
  • Reactive maintenance tactics still rule the day: Nearly 70% of companies are still reactive, while far fewer indicate they bring predictive analytics to asset reliability.
  • Uptime improvement is new capacity without the expense: 93% state their performance can be improved substantially. Over half of these companies see uptime improving between 8% and 15% per line.
  • Changeovers continue to impact uptime reliability: More than 62% note that they are not running reliably coming off a changeover, with 68% acknowledging their lines are ill-prepared to take on more frequent changeovers.
  • No time to waste: Only 12% of companies can reach “first hour full power” more than 80% of the time.
  • Enabling technologies to better inform the floor: Greater than 56% of companies state their companies’ lines are not capable of notifying those who can provide needed attention to fix a problem.
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