Project Management Research On Equipment Shut-down Maintenance In A Pharmaceutical Corporation

As a strategic emerging industry, pharmaceutical industry is an embodiment of creativity and comprehensive competence of a nation. For recent years pharmaceutical industry has drawn great attention from countries in the world. As an essential factor of production in pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical equipment, with its steady development, lays a foundation for the bright prospect of pharmaceutical industry. In addition, pharmaceutical equipment has its impact on many aspects, such as pharmaceutical manufactures, patients, social environment. In accordance with safe production, qualified pharmaceuticals, environmental conservation and corporation operation, in production activities, pharmaceutical corporations have lay great stress on equipment shut-down maintenance, which requires to carry out equipment maintenance during equipment stoppage regularly or irregularly. The equipment shut-down maintenance in pharmaceutical industry has not only many of the basic features of equipment shut-down maintenance in other industries, but also has its own uniqueness. The paper tries to analyze the uniqueness of equipment shut-down maintenance in pharmaceutical industry and suggests that pharmaceutical corporations should attach great importance to equipment shut-down maintenance, regard equipment shut-down maintenance as a project with a full life cycle in actual management and organize corporations in a project concept and method.The paper refers to some relevant theories that introduce equipment shut-down maintenance and project management, makes a summary on some key indicators, such as categories and progresses of equipment overhaul, quality of overhaul, cost of overhaul, overhaul safety. At the same time the paper also prove the practicability and necessity of the project management in equipment shut-down maintenance, which lays a theoretical groundwork and provides means for A pharmaceutical corporation to implement project management in equipment shut-down maintenance.Talking A the equipment shut-down maintenance in pharmaceutical corporation for example, the paper introduces some basic information of its equipment shut-down maintenance in the past and points out its problems and weakness. And then the paper goes deeper into these problems and tries to find out what causes these problems, which can give some suggestions for the company on scientific management of its equipment shut-down maintenance. Based on the analysis of the situation of equipment shut-down maintenance in A pharmaceutical corporation and with the references of some theories and methods on Management, the paper recommends A pharmaceutical corporation to adopt project stage management on the equipment shut-down maintenance. And there are three stages of equipment shut-down maintenance, which are start-up stage, implementation stage and closing stage. In accordance with different contents and characteristics of these three stages as well as the four key indicators, such as categories and progresses of equipment overhaul, quality of overhaul, cost of overhaul, overhaul safety, the start-up stage---organization establishment, process optimization and document preparation--- and the implementation stage should strictly conform to the four key indicators. And the closing stage---online debugging, document collation and assessment should be stressed. It’s important that specific and operable schemes should be proposed in order to realize project management and control and achieve overall goals of equipment shut-down maintenance through refined management of every stage. Furthermore, the paper explores in greater depth three aspects which play significantly security roles in equipment shut-down maintenance, which are equipment cleaning, personnel management and site management. And the paper also introduces how to ensure the smooth undergoing of equipment shut-down maintenance of A pharmaceutical corporation from these three aspects.With the aim of handling the problems in equipment shut-down maintenance in A pharmaceutical corporation, the paper combines management theories with its actual application in corporations and suggests corporations to implement project stage management in equipment shut-down maintenance. In addition, this paper can be a reference for A pharmaceutical corporations and similar corporations on equipment shut-down maintenance so as to make equipment shut-down maintenance projectized, scientific and orderly.