Creating and Sustaining a Maintenance Strategy: A Practical Guide

Robson, Kenneth; Trimble, Robert; MacIntyre, John

doi:10.5430/jbar.v2n1p77

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“…This strategy must be consistent with the organization's overall strategy. In order to enhance organizational competitiveness maintenance managers are being challenged to unify maintenance activities, resources, and procedures in order so support the strategic orientation of their organizations (Al-Najjar 2007;Alsyouf 2007;Lee and Scott 2009;Robson, Trimble, and MacIntyre 2013) 2. Are measures with more relevance to the manager more likely to be used?…”

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Changing role of maintenance in business organisations: measurement versus strategic orientation

Simões¹,

Gomes

Yasin

2015

International Journal of Production Research

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The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of performance measures utilized by the maintenance function in today's business organizations. In the process, the increasing variety and significance of these measures are addressed from operational and strategic perspectives. A survey-based research method was utilized to gather the research data. Several statistical procedures were utilized to analyse the data. The findings of this study point to the multifaceted nature of the maintenance measures and measurement. Multiple categories of maintenance measures were identified. These categories varied from the machine-specific, to measures impacting organizational performance. The relative lack of emphasis placed on the environment and strategic facets of maintenance is noted. The findings of this study have direct implications to organizations, which are attempting to measure the effectiveness of their maintenance efforts. The need to align the maintenance performance efforts with the organizational strategic direction is emphasized. In this context, the integration of the maintenance performance information systems with the overall organizational performance management information system might facilitate the needed alignment. This study utilizes 120 maintenance measures. As such, it represents a comprehensive view of the maintenance effort.

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“…This research study is guided by the conceptual framework in Figure 1. The figure is partially based on the available literature (Lee and Scott 2009;Simões, Gomes, and Yasin 2011;Robson, Trimble, and MacIntyre 2013). However, it also emphasizes the growing significance of maintenance in today's business organizations.…”

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Changing role of maintenance in business organisations: measurement versus strategic orientation

Simões¹,

Gomes

Yasin

2015

International Journal of Production Research

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“…However, in some cases the benefits resulting from the adoption of these philosophies have proved somewhat limited, due to the lack of reliability of production equipment Ahuja, 2011a). To this end, the effectiveness of maintenance has to be improved (Kenneth et al, 2013;Wang, 2010). As a result of inadequate insight into maintenance, it was found that companies pledged their organisational competitiveness, reducing performance and reliability through the rapid deterioration of facilities and production equipment, which resulted in reduced availability of equipment, such as the effect of excessive downtime.…”

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Management and operations maintenance for a water treatment and supply company

Calais

Azevedo

Matias

et al. 2017

IJISE

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This paper intends to highlight the importance of the maintenance activity for all kind of companies in general and for the water treatment companies in particular. To attain this objective a literature review on the evolution of the maintenance concept, the relation between the production function and the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and the factors that influence the success of TPM is performed. To demonstrate the contribution of the maintenance activity for the improvement of the performance of companies especially for the water treatment companies a case study of a Portuguese company belonging to the water treatment sector is performed. The case study company is considered important for the water treatment sector since it has an annual capacity of treatment and distribution of 41 million m 3 of drinking water to approximately 438,000 inhabitants spread over a geographic area that represents 15% of the Portuguese territory. Thus, the analysis of the case study company, named as Water Company, aims to demonstrate the importance of the implementation of an adequate management and deployment of appropriate maintenance activities, mainly the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), which seek to promote organisational synergies, corporate sustainability and success in the investment plan currently in force in this Portuguese sector.

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“…In this sense the authors in [7] stated that some manufacturing objectives, such as inventory reduction, improved equipment reliability, increased productivity and quality, have led maintenance managers to operate proactively, coordinating their activities with the production function. Similarly, authors like the ones in [8][9][10] pointed out that the MM and manufacturing strategy integration is vital to the same MM performance, which allows ensuring of the availability of the equipment, product quality, deliveries on time, and competitive prices. The work presented in [11] also states that the concept of maintenance must be reviewed periodically to take into account changes in the system and its environment; while the authors in [12] recognize that the perspective of the maintenance function will change depending on its interaction with the company, and thus the researchers and practitioners often have to deal with maintenance concept variations from one organization to another, and with the lack of a global solution easily adjustable to each case study.…”

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Proposal of a Framework for Evaluating the Importance of Production and Maintenance Integration Supported by the Use of Ordinal Linguistic Fuzzy Modeling

Díaz Cazañas,

Delgado Sobrino,

De La Paz Martínez

et al. 2024

Mathematics

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Over the years, the integration of Production Management and Maintenance Management has gained significant attention from the scientific community due to its benefits for the company. When searching through the states of the art and practice, it is possible to understand that one of the main challenges for the integration is the lack of systematic, methodological, and scientific approaches and evaluation systems that lead companies into a successful implementation and a clear understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of the process. This paper introduces an original framework that conducts the processes of evaluation, weighting, and aggregation of set of novel indicators proposed by the authors. The main output of the proposal is an integral index that allows us to qualify, in a linguistic domain, the importance of the Production and Maintenance Management integration. At the same time, the proposed framework includes a methodology to evaluate the consensus of the experts, based on the use of linguistic terms with a membership function of the triangular type, which attempts to overcome some deficiencies of previous models identified by the authors in a detailed and complex analysis of the scientific literature. The proposed framework is applied in a plant of the Cuban mechanical industry. The results of this application are clearly presented and discussed, allowing us to verify and validate the proposal while also contributing to its ease of understanding and ultimately to the successful integration of the production and maintenance tasks in the given company.

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Creating and Sustaining a Maintenance Strategy: A Practical Guide

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Changing role of maintenance in business organisations: measurement versus strategic orientation

Changing role of maintenance in business organisations: measurement versus strategic orientation

Management and operations maintenance for a water treatment and supply company

Proposal of a Framework for Evaluating the Importance of Production and Maintenance Integration Supported by the Use of Ordinal Linguistic Fuzzy Modeling

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