How to Improve Throughput in Maintenance: 9 Key Strategies

Improving throughput in maintenance is one of the highest-return moves a plant can make, because most sites lose more output to slow maintenance execution than to a shortage of equipment or people. According to the Federal Reserve report, industrial capacity utilization in the United States sits at around 76 percent, which means close to a quarter of installed production capacity goes unused on any given day. A large share of that lost output traces back to how maintenance work is prioritized, planned, and completed.