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ARMS Consultancy are experts in project management, across all industries

Perhaps the most important stage of asset-life cycle is the design & construction of those new assets coming into your organisation, despite this, many organisations do not have robust project management processes to ensure new assets coming into the organisation will meet the needs of the business. Problems are easiest to fix at the design phase, investing in proactive problem solving and compliance processes at the design phase will save your business money and improve performance over the asset life.

“Continuous improvement doesn’t start when the asset is handed over to the operation & maintenance teams. It starts at the detailed design phase, so that when the asset is handed over, the benefits of further optimisations and enhancements are built on top of an already enhanced position. So often, continuous improvement within an organisation is just a tool used to fix the problems not considered at the detailed design phase” – Jonathan Lane, COO & Founder, ARMS Innovations Ltd

ARMS Consultancy can offer a professional & efficient asset data collection surveys

Collecting asset data is essential for asset intensive businesses, you can’t begin to plan your maintenance strategy, improve asset reliability, or effectively plan capital investment strategies if you do not have sufficient asset data, such as asset type, location, age, replacement value and condition. Having an initial asset collection survey and then maintaining that data with systems, processes and procedures, ensures your organisation can guarantee the safety of assets and employees, as well as achieve compliance and plan maintenance in the most efficient way possible.

“Having a facilities or maintenance function or department, but not asset data, is a red flag that your maintenance & facilities strategy is currently a run to fail approach” – Jonathan Lane, COO & Founder, ARMS Innovations Ltd

Many businesses are aware that there are advanced technologies out there to support asset maintenance, such as IoT sensors and integration capabilities to leverage real time alert and assignment workflows, sensors to drive insights, condition-based monitoring technologies or metering methods to leverage predictive maintenance, but despite this, these technologies are under utilised.

ARMS Consultancy can support your organisation to have an agreed strategy for the application of these technologies across your business, based on asset consequence of failure, failure likelihood, cost of technologies, duplicity of assets effected and more, so that a universal and agreed approach can be established to give those in your organisation responsible for asset life-cycle the parameters to apply these technologies, where it is justifiable, so that you can start to leverage IoT, 4.0 & condition based monitoring technologies.

How does your organisation measure its ability to leverage excellence in asset life-cycle management?

ARMS Consultancy can support your organisation to establish a standard set of metrics to measure your performance, across the essential area(s):

• Availability
• System Error Intensify (failure rate)
• Asset Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
• Asset Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
• Energy Usage
• H&S Compliance
• Planned Maintenance Compliance
• Cost (Planned Versus Reactive)

For large automated systems of assets, such as complex integrated manufacturing or fulfilment assemblies, ARMS Consultancy has cutting edge availability modelling and measuring software capabilities. With our support, your organisation can now finally accurately measure the ability of your automated systems to achieve their intended maximum design throughput as part of an acceptance process, or, to report as an operational performance indicator as required by shift, day, week or year. The software can accurately report availability like never before, in real time, regardless of how complicated your installation, so that your organisation can finally measure the benefits of continuous improvement activities on system performance and also easily identify those areas in your complex integrated assembly that are having the biggest negative impact to system output, so that continuous improvement activities can be targeted on those issues that will give your business the biggest improvements.

“When you can finally measure the performance of your systems, you can truly start the continuous improvement journey, you can identify those issues with the biggest negative impact for resolution and measure the benefit impact on realisation” – Joe Morris, CEO & Co- Founder, ARMS Innovations Ltd

ARMS Consultancy has built Health & Safety Management into the heart of both our Quality Management System and software solutions.

Our expert consultants can support your business with the following services:

• Risk Assessments & Method Statements
• Lone Worker Controls
• Safe Isolation & Lock Off Processes
• Working at Height Procedures & Controls
• Chemical Safety & Control
• Contractor Safety, On-boarding, and Evaluation
• Contractor Safety and Standard Operating Procedures
• Permit To Work Systems and Procedures
• Safe Systems of Work

Planned preventive maintenance (PPM) is important to improve equipment reliability and uptime but is also often a statutory requirement to ensure that workplace equipment, services, plant & machinery are maintained to the original equipment manufacturers standards or other legislative requirements mandated to ensure safety for your employees and the public.

ARMS Consultancy can support your organisation with the following key objectives:

• Writing Planned Maintenance Procedures & Safe Systems of Working
• Establishing Fixed Time or Metered Planned Maintenance Strategies at both the asset & component levels
• Digitising planned maintenance processes so that inspections are conducted on mobile devices, inspections are defined in rich text on screen imagery, identified defects triaged and assigned, and all maintenance inspections are digitally recorded and held
• Generation of Planned Maintenance Compliance KPI(s)
• Businesses case for internal versus external maintenance strategies 
• Introduction of portable condition-based monitoring into your planned preventive inspections, such as:

• • Thermal Imaging (Temperature) 
  • Vibration Analysis
  • Noise Analysis

ARMS Consultancy can design, build and deliver your inventory management strategy for your warehouse or operations maintenance and facility’s needs.

Often it can be difficult to establish which parts are worth holding, with so many variables to consider from asset criticality, component criticality, value, lead time, parts in use, parts on site and more, ARMS Consultancy can offer the following services so that your business can manage its parts inventory both efficiently and effectively to ensure you have what you need when you need it, with zero stock out issues:

• Writing policy & procedure to define what should be stocked, in what quantity and when it should be re-ordered
• Automatic re-ordering of parts to suppliers to prevent stock out issues
• Digitisation of inventory to ensure the receipt, order, inventory checking, and controls are controlled in a material inventory database and parts checked with mobile store-man applications
• Parts can be issued out to jobs using mobile devices and bar-code scanning
• Digital audits scheduled to ensure parts are maintained

We recognise that companies cannot grow without continuously implementing value-added improvements.

Our consultants work with stakeholders to establish Continuous Improvement procedures, processes and practices which have a direct lineage to lean manufacturing principles established for decades in the automotive industry. 

With the implementation of DMIAC, Practical Problem Solving Tools, Workplace 5S, critical component investigations, our tested and proven tools and techniques have succeeded to reduce downtime costs, asset unavailability and improved reliability