Managing Maintenance Strategy

Abstract

The ''manage strategy'' process coordinates and integrates maintenance management activities in order to achieve the department objectives [20, 32]. This process also analyzes that these objectives are aligned with company's goals (see Fig. 6.1).This process is also responsible for leading and controlling continuous improvement and knowledge management for the of the maintenance objectives. By managing strategy we provide consistency to the maintenance actions, ensuring proper department orientation and viability according to predictable and/or unpredictable circumstances that may happen to the network. Therefore, this process ensures that maintenance decisions are unified and ordered to be more proactive and perfective than reactive and conservative. This process produces actions plans [12] to address all operational functions establishing the processes operation patterns [28,29], the coordinating mechanisms, standardizing the staff skills, the work tasks, the rules and the results. For planning purposes, actions plans should at least contain the following issues in line with Crespo Márquez [8]:• Involved human and material resources organization, responsibilities and updating knowledge and skills of the staff, accordfulfillmenting to their intervention in processes and performance standards.• Description of maintenance activities, at the required detail level, for each specialty.• Frequency and timing of the activities based on relevant data.• Action and security procedures oriented toward the satisfaction of the demanded services.• Necessary tools, equipments and devices to support the proper execution.• Performance evaluation measurements for the intended purpose.• Consequences, risks and corrective or remedial measures.• As ''the maintenance documentation is an asset '' [34], information management has to be specified (its storage, model, use, origin, source, etc.). • Flowcharts as guide for decision making ahead of different alternatives.• Internal and external constraints to fulfill in the activities (costs, legal, etc.).Inside the actions plans, and in order to ensure proper knowledge management and continuous improvement, all the maintenance functions and relations have to be documented in procedures governed by service level agreements (SLA's) and a control system. Remember that ''standardization and quality are two wheels of the same car' ' [19].The ''manage strategy'' is a strategic process that must lead and conduct the elaboration of maintenance procedures, standardizing and harmonizing the operations based on best practices, and maintaining all documentation updated, agreed and approved in the so-called maintenance library [5]. This library should include: actions plans, procedures, manuals and guides, regulations and legislation, technical instructions, specifications, formats and databases.In network utilities, the following actions plans can be considered as key plans to keep in the library:• Maintenance culture (vision, mission, objectives, organization and responsibilities). Consisting of docu...

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