To bridge between maintenance and production team here need a collaborative strategy that ensure alignment, communication and shared goal. i. Foster regular schedule meeting where both team share maintenance schedule, downtime issues and others. ii. Make sure both team understand other's KPI, maintenance is not about repair and production is not only output rather efficiency matters a lot. iii. Cross functional training helps to mitigate waiting for minor issues and to know the work scope of each team.

To bridge the gap between maintenance and production teams: 1. Identify root causes of the issue 2. Establish common goals and objectives 3. Improve communication through regular meetings and shared platforms 4. Foster a culture of collaboration and mutual respect 5. Define clear roles and responsibilities 6. Implement joint performance metrics 7. Provide cross-functional training and development opportunities

Collaboration gaps between maintenance and production are more common than we think. Cross-functional meetings, shared KPIs, and real-time data visibility can do wonders. I've seen success where both teams co-create workflows it builds ownership and trust on both sides.

First we need to understand the reason why they are not collaborating. Work burden? Is it part of their goals? Foster communication and define clear responsibilities, encourage them to take actions, make them feel they are an important piece of the team. Share the wins and achievements.

What I found helpful to bridge this gap is the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) which brings production and maintenance into a team to gather the data to get ahead of the curve. (MTBF = Total Operating Time/Number of Failures) • Unknown failures still occur 10-20% of the time • Maintain a machine log to gather data • Track failure and cause if known • How long down • Time of failure • Time to repair • Schedule the Failure Parts with Maintenance • Proactively replace failure points • Create windows for maintenance IF you have a large job coming through, proactively replace parts close to failure as to now impact production. Win-Win.