Facing reliability challenges and cost pressures across Nestlé USA's food and beverage division, our corporate maintenance team needed to establish consistent foundational systems across 20 factories. We identified planning and scheduling as the critical umbrella system that would reveal and address gaps in other maintenance practices.

This presentation details our systematic approach to implementing maintenance standards that drive operational excellence. By focusing intensely on work order data accuracy, we created a decision-making environment based on reliable asset information rather than assumptions.

The results speak for themselves: in 2024, our factories achieved a remarkable 20% improvement in reliability while simultaneously reducing maintenance and improvement costs by 5%.

• Essential maintenance foundations and their impact on performance metrics
• Balancing short-term wins with long-term maintenance strategy development
• Implementing governance and assessment frameworks to measure implementation progress

Critical Takeaways:

1. The fundamental maintenance systems that deliver maximum performance impact
2. Strategic approach to developing integrated short and long-term improvement roadmaps
3. Practical methods for measuring implementation progress and maintaining momentum