A structured methodology for identifying performance metrics and monitoring maintenance effectiveness

Abstract

Most current maintenance programs focus on achieving the main goals of maintenance operations: increasing mean time between failures, reducing time to repair and minimizing costs. Some researchers have focused on optimizing these variables. Detailed analyses have been conducted in the fields of equipment wellness, spares administration, planned maintenance and structured organization. Still, many organizations fail to fulfill today's ambitious objective of guaranteeing operations while achieving high reliability and maintaining safety. A comprehensive method of maintenance assessment that considers key factors and indicators that influence the main goals of maintenance is still sought after. This paper discusses a new approach to performance-based maintenance management. The objective is to determine an integrated reliability management system that provides a method of aligning maintenance operations with the business strategy and monitoring performance of key technical, human and organization goals over time.

Plant maintenance management practices in automobile industries: a retrospective and literature review

“…Yet the world has not nourished with the synergic power of integrating them. Amoedo et al, 2006 Preferred metrics to monitor Maintenance Operations under a complex socio-economical environment were determined and the methodology resulted in a small set of metrics to monitor and effectively manage maintenance operations. Narayanan et al, 2006 There is a significant impact of the R&D intensity and size of the firm on their productivity, along with other factors like energy, labor and maintenance.…”

“…Thus there are different approaches to maintenance management, but despite advances in computer technology and manufacturing techniques, benchmarking studies of actual maintenance performance signal the need for new, improved methods for analyzing and designing maintenance systems (Luxhoj et al, 1997). The application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for decision making and to improve the implementation of total productive maintenance is getting momentum in auto industries (Amoedo & Modarres, 2006;Labib, O'Connor, & Williams, 1998). …”