The role of maintenance in improving companies’ productivity and profitability

Alsyouf, Imad

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2004.06.057

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“…a necessary evil. This could be due to, among other reasons, the difficulty of seeing the impact of maintenance on companies' bottom-line results (Bob, 2007;Alsyouf, 2007). Pinjala et al (2006) showed, in an empirical study conducted in a sample of industry in Belgium and the Netherlands, that quality competitors with more advanced manufacturing technology usage and automation have more maintenance personnel and spend more on budget.…”

Section: Investment In Maintenancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…strategies and concepts, have been implemented by practitioners or suggested by intellectuals. Maintenance approaches and their development are discussed by many authors; see, for example (Moubray, 1991;Kelly, 1997;Mckone and Wiess, 1998;Dekker, 1996;Sherwin, 2000;Swanson, 2001;Tsang, 2002;Alsyouf, 2007). Usually, maintenance actions are aimed at minimising failure and the consequences of failure of industrial plant, machinery and equipment as far as possible.…”

Section: Maintenance Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The contribution of maintenance to the performance and profitability of manufacturing systems is beyond question and has been emphasised by many studies, see among others Kutucuoglu et al (2001), Mitchell et al (2002) and Alsyouf (2007). However, it was found that about 70% of the respondents still believed maintenance is a necessary expense.…”

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Maintenance practices in Swedish industries: Survey results

Alsyouf

2009

International Journal of Production Economics

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a b s t r a c tThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the maintenance practices that are used in Swedish industry. The study was performed by conducting a cross-sectional survey within Swedish firms that have at least 100 employees. The main results achieved from the study show that the role of maintenance is not highly recognised. There is a need to spend and invest more in maintenance, which is considered by the majority of Swedish industries as a necessary expense. Although about 13% of the maintenance department time is spent on planning maintenance tasks, nevertheless, about one third of the time is spent on unplanned tasks. There is a need for more adoption of maintenance concepts such as total productive maintenance (TPM) and reliability-centred maintenance (RCM). The lack or ineffectiveness of planning and scheduling can significantly restrict the maintenance department in achieving its objectives and can thus prevent the company from maximising business profits and offering competitive advantages.

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Maintenance practices in Swedish industries: Survey results

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“…Mnogi autori navode da je za efikasno upravljanje održava-njem neophodno usklađeno posmatrati proces održa-vanja i primarni proces u kompaniji [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Pored toga, autori ističu da postoji značajan uticaj procesa održavanja na primarni proces u kompaniji [8,9,10,11].…”

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“…U radu [9], autor zaključuje da je sa efektivnijom strategijom održavanja veći obim proizvodnje sa prihvatljivim kvalitetom proizvoda, što utiče na povećanje profita.…”

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