RS releases ‘Performance in Focus’ 2024 maintenance engineering report

18 November, 2024

Raj Patel, RS UK & Ireland managing director, said: “Modern maintenance professionals face a tricky balancing act between the day-to-day realities of ensuring facilities are safe and operational, and longer-term projects designed to prevent future breakdowns or inefficiencies.

“It was encouraging to see organisations are deploying a variety of strategies to help reduce unscheduled downtime in the report. But there’s a wide spectrum of results here in terms of maintenance maturity and there’s still clearly a way to go. Maintenance professionals should seek to leverage suppliers for both reliability and quality of parts supply, and solutions providers to outsource elements of maintenance, particularly if the required specialist skills aren’t available in-house.”

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Managing ageing assets is an ongoing challenge for maintenance professionals, according to Richard Jeffers, solutions and technical director at RS: “Businesses don't want to replace assets simply because they’ve reached a certain age and, as maintenance professionals, they should be focused on how they can maximise the life of an asset, which can increase cash flow for the business.”

The survey findings highlighted that organisations are taking steps to reduce unscheduled downtime, the most common strategies being upgrading equipment and improving training (both 49%), plans to introduce a preventative maintenance strategy (40%) and a change in approach towards maintenance (30%).