The sure road to success – measure to improve

Target setting and performance monitoring are the prerequisites of effective control. With Pirana, you can enter across-the-board performance targets for all maintenance activities and the system will then automatically measure and report current achievement against them. By taking definitive action in the light of adverse or positive trends, you can gain better control and drive continuous improvement. Pirana makes this otherwise complicated process as straightforward as can be.

Using Pirana’s vivid, interactive Dashboard and Scoreboard displays, you can view all your selected performance indicators – and any other information you want to see – at a glance. Mix and match performance indicators as you like and configure the visual display to suit yourself. It’s easy.

To achieve business objectives – and your own personal goals – you have to plan, monitor and control maintenance activities. To facilitate these crucial tasks, a performance management framework is a necessity – Pirana delivers this requirement in spades.

Pirana’s Dashboard and Scoreboard is right in keeping with the visual management principles of Lean and TPM, perfectly complementing the signs, charts and andons of the visual workplace.

Most of the basic data for monitoring performance will already exist in a well organised maintenance management system. It’s collected and logged in the normal course of work initiation, planning and execution. However, to enable the proper, in-depth analysis, you need to ensure that you have well thought out categories of work types, events, actions, etc – it’s a labelling issue.

Performance indicators – also known as measures or metrics – promote visibility, alertness and agility. They foster organisation-wide common purpose – they’re the essential means of ensuring that everyone in the organisation sings from the same hymn sheet.

There are two categories of performance indicators – lagging and leading. Understanding the nature and use of these two types of indicators is critical to your success as an engineering or services manager. If you’d like to know more, read our guidance: Key Performance Indicators: what you need to know (210KB)