Maintenance productivity and performance measurement

Projekt:

JVTC

Sammanfattning:
Maintenance productivity is one of the most important issues which govern the economics of production activities. However, productivity is often relegated to second rank, and ignored or neglected by those who influence production processes (Singh et al. 2000). Productivity in a narrow sense has been measured for several years (Andersen and Fagerhaug, 2007). Since maintenance activities are multidisciplinary in nature with a large number of inputs and outputs, the performance of maintenance productivity needs to be measured and considered holistically with an integrated approach. With increasing awareness that maintenance creates added value to the business process; organizations are treating maintenance as an integral part of their business (Liyanage and Kumar, 2003). For many asset-intensive industries, the maintenance costs are a significant portion of the operational cost. Maintenance expenditure accounts for 20-50 % of the production cost for the mining industry depending on the level of mechanization. In larger companies, reducing maintenance expenditure by $1 million contributes as much to profits as increasing sales by $3 million (Wireman, 2007). The amount spent on the maintenance budget for Europe is around 1500 billion euros per year (Altmannshopfer, 2006) and for Sweden 20 billion euros per year (Ahlmann, 2002). In open cut mining, the loss of revenue resulting from a typical dragline being out of action is US $ 0.5-1.0 million per day, and the loss of revenue from a 747 Boeing plane being out of action is roughly US $ 0.5 million per day (Murthy et al. 2002). Therefore, the importance of maintenance productivity is understood more and more by the management of the companies.

Författare: Aditya Parida ; Uday Kumar
Utgivare: Springer
Utgivningsdatum: 2009
Diarienummer: TRV 2011/58769
ISBN: 978-1-84882-471-3
Antal sidor: 25
Språk: Engelska
Kontaktperson: Per Olof Larsson Kråik, UHjbs