SHOP OPERATIONS 40 Ways To Lower, Not Cut, Maintenance Costs By Darry W. Stuart, President & CEO, DWS Fleet Management Services 26 Fleet Maintenance | APRIL 2017 ith the never-ending pressures for margins, profi ts and job survival, every fl eet maintenance operation has been ordered to cut costs. Cost cutting can be very diffi cult because such eff orts don’t always address the real drivers of costs. Moreover, the endeavors can be too diffi cult to maintain over time. At times, maintenance managers lack enough insight into their own operations to establish cost cutting programs. What’s more, cost cutting can oft en go wrong. Cost cuts are frequently made without considering a maintenance operation’s strategic needs. Oft en, there are longer-term consequences from “quick” cuts that can aff ect opportunities to improve operations, say by improving systems or better use of the workforce. A considerably more eff ective approach is to lower costs through optimization, becoming more organized, developing an effi ciency mindset and establishing business process improvements. Here, in no particular order, are 40 ways to lower costs in any maintenance operation. All of them may not necessarily work in each maintenance management style or company culture, but they will help lower costs if started, completed and managed. Cost reduction is a more eff ective approach than cutting back on spending SHOP MANAGEMENT
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