Insertion of sustainability concepts in the maintenance strategies to achieve sustainable manufacturing

Abstract

Companies adopt sustainable practices in order to improve the economic, environmental and social performance of their operations. This fact does not occur with the same intensity in maintenance operations. By adopting sustainable practices during the implementation of maintenance strategies, there will be mitigation of industrial maintenance impacts on sustainability. However, there are few studies on the integration of sustainability in maintenance activities and few companies adopt sustainable maintenance due to lack of knowledge of the subject and its benefits. This paper aims to show how the concepts of sustainability are being inserted in the maintenance strategies. For this purpose, a literature review and a systematic literature review were performed. It was verified that the concepts of sustainability are integrated into maintenance strategies by means of sustainable criteria, with emphasis on lost production cost, spare parts cost and expenditures associated with energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (economic dimension), on pollutant emission due to energy consumption during machining/manufacturing (environmental dimension) and on health and safety at work (social dimension). This paper contributes to the dissemination of the theme and motivates the companies to implement sustainable maintenance.can serve as inspiration for the development of new studies, both for academics and professionals in the maintenance and sustainability areas of the industry.

Identification of Criteria for Enabling the Adoption of Sustainable Maintenance Practice: An Umbrella Review

“…Furthermore, the MCA analysis (with abstract bigrams) show that 16/19 abstract items cluster together (shared inertia), while reviews by Franciosi, C. et al [47], de Campos et al [53], and Santos, A. et al [54] show the highest inertia from the centre of gravity, whereas the study by Pires, S. [51] did not associate with any cluster. Primarily, the study by Pires, S. [51] is also questionable in terms of suitability within the proposed domain, since it mostly investigates the roles of interoperability, ontology and semantics for enabling applicability and transition of sustainability in MDM.…”

“…This suggests that from the text analysis using abstract bigrams, most of the papers had high word similarity (16 papers). The papers showing high inertia were those of Franciosi, C. et al [47] (blue cluster), Campos, R. et al [53] (green cluster) and Santos, A. et al [54] (purple cluster), which will be further analysed and elaborated in the discussion.…”

Sustainable maintenance planning in the petroleum industry: an application of system dynamics approach

“…According to Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek (2013), sustainable maintenance practices application would engender internal and external benefits, some of which could be referred to as (1) internal economic benefits, like the limitation of environmental charges; (2) internal environmental benefits, such as the limitation of the amount of waste generated; (3) internal social benefits, including increased safety of operators and technical staff; (4) external economic benefits, same as limitation of the risk of serious breakdowns; (5) external environmental benefits, for instance, elimination or reduction of fines emerging from wrong practices and (6) external social benefits, namely the positive image of a company in the context of safety and health provision. A systematic literature review was done by de Campos and Simon (2019) to show how the concept of sustainability had been inserted into the maintenance strategies. They categorized the sustainability criteria defined by different authors in the three dimensions of sustainability as (1) economic criteria, such as the cost associated with energy consumption, the lost production cost, the spare parts cost, the cost associated with greenhouse gases emissions and the labor cost; (2) environmental indicators, including pollutant emission due to energy consumption during machining/manufacturing, consumption of nonrenewable resources, and waste disposal and (3) social factors, namely health and safety at work, stakeholder participation and noise pollution.…”

Toward a view of integrating corporate sustainability into strategy: A systematic literature review

“…While employees are viewed as enablers and judges of the sustainability integration process (de Campos & Simon, 2019;Smith & Besharov, 2019;Wepfer et al, 2018), managers are considered as enablers of sustainability integration (Agarwal & Bhal, 2020).…”

“…While employees are viewed as enablers and judges of the sustainability integration process (de Campos & Simon, 2019; Smith & Besharov, 2019; Wepfer et al, 2018), managers are considered as enablers of sustainability integration (Agarwal & Bhal, 2020). Managers' commitment to sustainability and their related knowledge can influence sustainability integration directly through the manager's behaviors, and indirectly through their influence on employees (Friedman et al, 2016), a situation which was especially evident during market turbulences (Derqui, 2020).…”