Spare Parts & Materials Management
Managing spares as a reliability control rather than a stores chore: criticality-driven stocking policies, clean material master data, interchangeability and equivalents, rotable repair loops, preservation of stored items, obsolescence planning and reservations that keep planned jobs supplied. For materials, warehouse, planning, maintenance and reliability people.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain why spares availability is a reliability outcome, not just a stores performance measure
- Classify spares by criticality and select the stocking policy that fits each class
- Judge the quality of a material master record and describe what poor data costs the plant
- Apply interchangeability rules and manage rotables through a closed repair-and-return loop
- Specify preservation and shelf-life controls for stored spares and verify they are being applied
- Plan for obsolescence with OEMs and reserve materials so planned jobs are never short
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mSpares Are a Reliability Problem, Not a Stores ProblemKnowledge
- 3mCriticality Drives the Stocking PolicyKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Criticality and ConsequenceAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mMaterial Master Data and What Bad Data CostsKnowledge
- 3mInterchangeability, Equivalents and the Rotable LoopKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Data, Equivalents and RotablesAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mPreservation in Store and Serving the PlanKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Spares Health Check on a Critical AssetAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Preservation and Availability JudgementAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mObsolescence, End of Life and Owning the Spares PortfolioKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Obsolescence and Insurance Spare ReviewAssignment
- 8mMastery Assessment: Spares Strategy Under PressureAssessment
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