How to Improve Equipment Uptime: 12 Ways to Increase Uptime and Reduce Breakdowns

Ask any maintenance leader in a refinery, a chemical plant or a mine where their uptime goes, and the honest answer is rarely the repair itself. It is the wait before the repair. The hours lost while a fault sits unreported, a permit waits for sign-off, a spare part is tracked down, or a half-finished job is handed to the next shift.