Transportation providers have largely fleet-focused operations. Because these vehicles and other movable assets travel on public right-of-ways, failure of equipment can do more than halt production―it can endanger lives. For this reason, asset management with best-practices MRO (maintenance, reliability and operations) is one of the most critical components of maintaining profit, reputation and public trust.

Unfortunately, faced with declining margins and increasing regulations, including those that cause drivers to spend more time resting while on the road, transportation providers are challenged to find time for proper maintenance.

To overcome these challenges, transportation providers must address them at their source. Preventive maintenance and effective spare parts management are critical to keeping the wheels turning without incurring excessive costs.

Scheduled maintenance and careful monitoring allow transportation companies to stop many catastrophic failures before they leave cargo stranded on the side of the road or on a busy rail line.

However, simply implementing new technologies and procedures is not enough. Transportation providers must facilitate a cultural shift by relaying the core MRO meaning and the benefits of preventive maintenance to their teams.

When everyone, from drivers to mechanics to company leadership, believes in preventive maintenance, they will embrace the changes required to make it a part of organizational culture.

Through its best-practices approaches and procedures, Performance Consulting Associates (PCA) has helped transportation operators maintain world-class reliability in their equipment and services.

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