Maintenance regime redesign at Halvard Energy
A fixed maintenance calendar replaced by a schedule built on the machines' own readings, and argued with by the crews who run it.
Operations & Performance · Halvard Energy
The engagement, on paper.
The record
ClientHalvard Energy
SectorEnergy & utilities
ServiceOperations & Performance
Year2024
Duration10 weeks
Fee£110–160k, fixed
You leave with 10 weeks
The operation, measured: a baseline your own team can rerun
A redesign the team leads wrote with us
A run-rate improvement, tracked weekly for a year
What Operations & Performance hands over, whichever client bought it. This one is the version Halvard Energy runs now.
Three movements.
The challenge
Turbine maintenance ran on a fixed calendar, which meant servicing healthy machines and missing failing ones. The crews knew which turbines were in trouble; the schedule did not ask them.
The approach
Six weeks measuring the maintenance operation where it happened, travel time, tool time, waits for parts. Then a schedule rebuilt around the sensor history and the crews' own judgement, with every moved job carrying the reason it moved. The crews redesigned the shift pattern themselves once they could see the pattern.
The result
Unplanned downtime fell 23% over the following year, and the schedule is now argued with rather than followed.
−23%
unplanned turbine downtime
How it was measured
Measured as unplanned outage hours per turbine per year, across 34 turbines, against the three preceding years' mean. Stated this way because a figure without its method is a claim. Ask us for the workings: we will send them.
Where it sat in the method: stage 03, 12 weeks of the 28.
Operations & Performance is stage 03 work. Every engagement opens with the audit whichever stage it lands in, and the roadmap from that audit is what priced this one.
“The schedule is argued with now, rather than followed. That is the difference between a tool the floor trusts and one it works around.”
The service behind itP.02
Operations & Performance
Cost, throughput, quality and service: the operation measured where the work actually happens, then redesigned with the people who do it, to a number agreed before we start.
10 weeks · £110–160k, fixed
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