Repairs and overhauls of large systems are inherently complex. While organizations building new products can predict labor, material, and other requirements with confidence, MRO operators face a unique set of circumstances with virtually every job they approach. Despite their best efforts to plan the job scope, many variables remain unseen until the work begins.

As a result, anywhere from 30% to 70% of MRO requirements cannot be accurately planned for in advance putting cost and schedule commitments automatically at risk, every time. MRO customers, meanwhile, require faster turnaround times, higher unit availability, lower cost, and an accurate picture of when equipment will be returned to service.

The solution to this paradox: Speed; driven by teamwork, flexibility, and visibility. CBS can equip your MRO team with production improvement, management processes, and support tools that provide the speed that your customers demand. These include:

• Lean 6 Sigma Continuous Process Improvement
• CBS WorkFlow for MRO™ - Real-time MRO shop work task coordination
• CBS MRO Analyzer™- TAT delay Analysis and Improvement
• CBS MRO Production Controller™- Job work task coordination and control
• CBS MRO Materials Manager™- Control and Coordination of materials for all key parts and repair component suppliers
• CBS MRO Resources Manager™- Control and coordination of job support resources

MRO Strategy

MRO Strategic Planning generates medium and long range solutions to competitive issues. Many companies create business and functional strategies as the foundation for annual operating plans. MRO Strategic plan answers many fundamental questions including:

• Make-Buy: which items to repair or buy
• Factory rationalization: Where to make each product, where and when to grow or consolidate
• Competitive performance objectives: level of performance required to overtake important competitors and what capabilities are required to attain that result
• Customer driven performance requirements: What direction are customers expectations going and how to respond

MRO Ramp-up, Ramp-downs, and relocations

Whether large or small, most MRO organizations must address major increases or declines of customer demands. CBS team members have addressed these market challenges in the experiences as operations leaders and consultants. CBS offers clients:

• Capacity Analysis
• Development of strategy and action plans to address capability gaps
• Support capability to assist in facilties relocations including processes to assure customer requirements are met throughout any transition period
• Project Management support for any production expansion, contraction, and relocation

‘Tactical’ MRO Problem Solving and Corrective Action

All CBS clients see CBS as the consultants that will help them solve their most serious and complex problems. Our consultants are often called to assist clients in a range of issues that have frustrated internal resources and are compromising important objectives. In some clients, CBS brings ‘6 Sigma’ problem solving approach and analytical tools. With clients already familiar with these tools, CBS taps into our vast experience solving similar problems in comparable environments. Sometimes, clients have looked at the same issue so many times that solving it simply requires a fresh approach and different experience base. Some of the most typical problems CBS helps clients resolve are:

• Chronic on-time delivery issues
• Chronic production process yield issues
• Resolving cost problems in a product or product family
• Addressing customer driven needs to reduce order lead-times