Editorial Special Issue on Developments and Applications in Maintenance Performance

Projekt:

JVTC

Sammanfattning:
The maintenance function is inherent to production. Even so, understanding and
quantifying its activities can be problematic. For a long time, maintenance was carried
out by the workers themselves, with no defined parameters. However, this lack of
performance measures do no longer exist since maintenance department is a key role
player in the overall picture of the companies. The focus is now to keep track on the
creation of value provided by the maintenance function due to two main reasons:
• First, there is a need for higher plant availability in a global economy. Global
markets suffer from expansions, purchase of industrial buildings, production
equipment, acquisitions of companies in the same sector, regardless of the country.
Global competition means that companies want their productive capacities to remain
at a maximum. Therefore, organisations are beginning to worry about keeping track
of the parameters that may affect the availability of their plants and machinery.
• Second, the bottom line is chrematistic, i.e., related to money-making. When
organisations begin to optimise their production costs, they start to question their
maintenance costs. This function, in recent years, has grown in assets, personnel,
etc., and now consumes a significant percentage of the overall organisation budget.

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Författare: Diego Galar
Utgivare: International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management
Utgivningsdatum: 2013
Diarienummer: TRV 2011/58769
ISSN: 1759-9733
Antal sidor: 3
Språk: Engelska
Kontaktperson: Per Olof Larsson Kråik, UHjbs