Manufacturing Performance Enhancement Through Various Maintenance Practices in Indian SMEs: A Literature Review

Abstract

Globalization and liberalization of the world economy has leveled the field for all competitors around the globe. In this high competition environment all the industries try to lower the manufacturing cost of product and to increase their profit without compromising quality of product. Industries are in the race to search the ways to reduce the manufacturing cost of product. All over the world industries implement many techniques to sustain in this competitive world. In this environment Maintenance practices’ become the essential and basic need of industries. The main objective of maintenance practices is to keep machines running all the time and increasing the availability of resources. Like this maintenance practices have become one of the most important functions in an organization. In India large industries implemented maintenance practices successfully and receiving their benefits. But a very little information is available regarding the success role of maintenance practices in small and medium enterprises. To face global competition successfully, SMEs have to successfully implement the maintenances practices. The purpose of this paper is to review the current scenario of various maintenance practices being implemented in SMEs. The paper will have great value for managers of SMEs in understanding the benefits accrued by implementing these maintenance practices. The paper will also cover the direct and indirect benefits of maintenance practices in Indian SMEs.

A study of challenges in successfully implementing maintenance practices in northern Indian small and medium manufacturing companies

“…The various components and criteria characterize SMEs, for example, area, size, age, structure, association, number of representatives, aggregate speculation, deal volume and so on. The definition of SMEs varies from country to country (Sidhu et al ., 2018; Payan et al ., 2019), but SMEs classification in India has been depicted in Table 1.…”

An empirical investigation of maintenance practices for enhancing manufacturing performance in small and medium enterprises of northern India

“…In the contemporary manufacturing scenario, information management, quality, time, technology, price, innovation and reliability have become critical parameters leading to successful enterprise management (Sidhu et al , 2018; Kumar et al , 2006). To respond to this significant issue in manufacturing systems, organizations bank upon improving the effectiveness of various supporting functions such as maintenance to realize maximum operational efficiency in manufacturing functions (Pun et al , 2002).…”