MEC board basics

What: To do 'Manage Equipment Care' activities, the MEC board enables a graphic overview of the preventive tasks and allows for further alignment.

To get the MEC board icons visible you need to tick the MEC box in your user-account:

The MEC board icons are available in Floc grid, Equipment grid and Systems grid:

So basically: you can make or Floc, or Equipment, or System selections.
Also the MEC board icons are available in the indiviual Floc, Equipment and Systems detailed screens.

In the MEC board 4 main overviews are provided:

• Long-term maintenance cost profile
• Average maintenance cost per year vs. MEI (cumulative)
• Total maintenance cost per year per CMMS Type
• MEI vs. maintenance cost per year per Failure mode

The MEC board overview can give you insight on:

• Are there large difrerences in cost in particular years? Why/ Why not?
• Which Equipment types contribute to high cost?
• Which high cost analyses are involved in low MEI scores?
• Is there a 'cut-off' point in the accumulated Cost/MEI view, which may be used to set a MEI threshold?

From these insights you can zoom in the data for better alignment or optimization.

Why:
When RCM analyses and RSL application is done, two additional steps need to be made:

1. Task alignment of timing, frequencies and costs.
2. Grouping of tasks for efficient execution.

The first step: Task alignment of timing, frequencies and costs is done in the MEC board.
Taks optimization can be done in guided steps, starting with Task optimization.