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17 Maintenance KPIs

Maintenance KPIs are performance metrics that help you measure how effective your overall maintenance process works.

You can use them to track the progress of your individual maintenance crews, as well as the overall performance of your entire organization.

 

These KPIs will be utilized across the site’s Maintenance Departments:
  1. LTIFR,  Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (both production and maintenance)
  2. Maintenance Cost per Hour vs. Budget
  3. Cost of Quality
  4. Maintenance Effectiveness
  5. Maintenance Efficiency
  6. Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
  7. Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
  8. Preventive Inspection Effectiveness
  9. Ratio of Preventive to Breakdown Maintenance
  10. Backlog
  11. % Scheduled Man Hours Planned
  12. % Schedule Compliance
  13. % Planning Effectiveness
  14. % Man Hours Available
  15. % Rework
  16. % Failures Investigated
  17. MIP Process Effectiveness  (MIP = Management Improvement Program).

How to calculate these KPIs, please read this document:


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