Maintenance Audit: the Tool for Maintenance Management Quality of Manufacturing Equipment

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of state-of-the-art of maintenance management audit and to show a case study of maintenance audit and its results in the Czech Republic. Authors proposed audit methodology based on world and own experiences. It was defined hundred thirty audit criteria divided into ten maintenance management areas. Using expert approach to review of maintenance managers and documentation according to audit criteria enables to obtain answers and their assessment presented in percentage of audit criteria fulfilment. After that there is applied SWOT analysis method to determine mainly weakness (gaps) in real maintenance management processes comparing with world excellence maintenance class. On the base of the gaps there are recommended topics for maintenance improvement. Value of the results is a help to maintenance managers and supervisors in maintenance audit executing as a tool for maintenance management improvement.

Consistent Maintenance Management Model: Results of changes of maintenance organisation structure and processes

“…The organization structure represents these responsibilities in the simplest and obvious way. The organization structure is clearly perceived on the level where business policy is formulated in the organization, however, it is essential that the organization structure is clearly understood on the level of work execution too [28,30]. Fig.…”

Proposal for Evaluating the Efficiency of Production Processes Using External and Internal Key Performance Indicators

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