Driving Efficiency: How to Maximize Your New Maintenance & Engineering System
So, you’ve just invested in a shiny new M&E system. It’s got all the bells and whistles — automation, analytics, cloud capabilities. You’re thinking, “We’re finally going to revolutionize how we work!” But here’s the catch: a new M&E system is only as good as the processes behind it.
It’s like buying a top-of-the-line sports car but then driving it on roads full of potholes, construction, and detours. The car’s fast, sleek, and packed with features, but you can’t get to your destination any faster, and the ride sure isn’t smooth.
In the same way, an M&E system won’t magically fix outdated, inefficient processes. If you don’t address those problems during the implementation project, your new system is just a fancy tool to automate unhealthy habits. You’re not moving any faster or smarter — you’ve just bought a more expensive dashboard.
Take the Wheel: Use the New System to Drive Change
The best way to leverage a new business system is to pair it with a thoughtful process overhaul. Take advantage of the system’s advanced features to implement organizational change where it makes sense.
Industries like aerospace & defense, maintenance & engineering, deal with complex operations where precision and efficiency are non-negotiable. Despite these challenges, process improvements can still be found:
- Rethink how you do business: Are there steps in your workflows that could be automated? Are there redundant tasks you could eliminate?
- Leverage new features: What functionality can help reduce errors and increase data accuracy?
- Streamline decision-making: Can the new system help you cut down on unnecessary approval cycles or speed up response times?
- Improve compliance and reduce risks: In highly regulated industries, improving compliance tracking saves both time and headaches.
By addressing process inefficiencies before, during, and after implementing your new system, you’ll be able to maximize its value and ensure smoother, more efficient operations with superior quality across the board.
On the Road: One Story
Here’s a real-life example. A certain airline operator customer of Tsunami Tsolutions had an established planning process for line maintenance:
08:00: Preliminary work scope is planned
12:00: Materials department has until noon to review local stock and determine availability
14:00: Tasks are removed from work packages where material is unavailable. Final work scope is committed.
Tsunami Tsolutions recommended that by using a system feature allowing the work scope commit to occur earlier in the process, would eliminate a review by each local Materials department. If the work scope was committed in a single step; right away at 08:00 (or even the night before), the M&E system can automatically reserve, ship or transfer material to the required maintenance locations in time for the overnight work to occur.
The customer was reluctant to change this established three-step process, which required manual reviews and adjustments. Tsunami Tsolutions was able to prototype the new process in the system, and once the customer was able to shift their thinking, trust the M&E system features, adopt the streamlined planning process, their focus shifted from short-term material management to more strategic analysis for optimizing stock level management and replenishment policies to support forecasted maintenance and historical trends.
The Bottom Line: What to do with your shiny new top-of-the-line M&E sports car?
Change your driving habits, get rid of potholes, and optimize your route to avoid traffic. You’ll be amazed at the new (in)sights along the way. Reach out to see how Tsunami Tsolutions can help you get there faster click here or contact us.
Over decades in aviation, Tsunami Tsolutions has seen airlines, particularly smaller ones with fewer configuration engineers and mechanics, struggle to confidently verify that aircraft are configured with the right allowable parts.
Learn the the vulnerabilities A&D manufacturers face from their own aerospace and defense (ERP) software.
ERP and MRP were designed for repetitive manufacturing. How are IFS and Tsunami Tsolutions delivering shipbuilding ERP?
New partnership leverages expertise of both companies to field FireSwarm’s integrated response platform
Driving Efficiency: How to Maximize Your New Maintenance & Engineering System
So, you’ve just invested in a shiny new M&E system. It’s got all the bells and whistles — automation, analytics, cloud capabilities. You’re thinking, “We’re finally going to revolutionize how we work!” But here’s the catch: a new M&E system is only as good as the processes behind it.
It’s like buying a top-of-the-line sports car but then driving it on roads full of potholes, construction, and detours. The car’s fast, sleek, and packed with features, but you can’t get to your destination any faster, and the ride sure isn’t smooth.
In the same way, an M&E system won’t magically fix outdated, inefficient processes. If you don’t address those problems during the implementation project, your new system is just a fancy tool to automate unhealthy habits. You’re not moving any faster or smarter — you’ve just bought a more expensive dashboard.
Take the Wheel: Use the New System to Drive Change
The best way to leverage a new business system is to pair it with a thoughtful process overhaul. Take advantage of the system’s advanced features to implement organizational change where it makes sense.
Industries like aerospace & defense, maintenance & engineering, deal with complex operations where precision and efficiency are non-negotiable. Despite these challenges, process improvements can still be found:
- Rethink how you do business: Are there steps in your workflows that could be automated? Are there redundant tasks you could eliminate?
- Leverage new features: What functionality can help reduce errors and increase data accuracy?
- Streamline decision-making: Can the new system help you cut down on unnecessary approval cycles or speed up response times?
- Improve compliance and reduce risks: In highly regulated industries, improving compliance tracking saves both time and headaches.
By addressing process inefficiencies before, during, and after implementing your new system, you’ll be able to maximize its value and ensure smoother, more efficient operations with superior quality across the board.
On the Road: One Story
Here’s a real-life example. A certain airline operator customer of Tsunami Tsolutions had an established planning process for line maintenance:
08:00: Preliminary work scope is planned
12:00: Materials department has until noon to review local stock and determine availability
14:00: Tasks are removed from work packages where material is unavailable. Final work scope is committed.
Tsunami Tsolutions recommended that by using a system feature allowing the work scope commit to occur earlier in the process, would eliminate a review by each local Materials department. If the work scope was committed in a single step; right away at 08:00 (or even the night before), the M&E system can automatically reserve, ship or transfer material to the required maintenance locations in time for the overnight work to occur.
The customer was reluctant to change this established three-step process, which required manual reviews and adjustments. Tsunami Tsolutions was able to prototype the new process in the system, and once the customer was able to shift their thinking, trust the M&E system features, adopt the streamlined planning process, their focus shifted from short-term material management to more strategic analysis for optimizing stock level management and replenishment policies to support forecasted maintenance and historical trends.
The Bottom Line: What to do with your shiny new top-of-the-line M&E sports car?
Change your driving habits, get rid of potholes, and optimize your route to avoid traffic. You’ll be amazed at the new (in)sights along the way. Reach out to see how Tsunami Tsolutions can help you get there faster click here or contact us.
Over decades in aviation, Tsunami Tsolutions has seen airlines, particularly smaller ones with fewer configuration engineers and mechanics, struggle to confidently verify that aircraft are configured with the right allowable parts.
Learn the the vulnerabilities A&D manufacturers face from their own aerospace and defense (ERP) software.
ERP and MRP were designed for repetitive manufacturing. How are IFS and Tsunami Tsolutions delivering shipbuilding ERP?
New partnership leverages expertise of both companies to field FireSwarm’s integrated response platform
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© 2021 TSUNAMI TSOLUTIONS