<p>The overall target of the maintenance management system is to improve the role of a maintenance organization in positively impacting <em>production capacity, <em>products quality, safety and also <em>overall production cost. In the course of ensuring the above mentioned benefits, the maintenance system should be designed under an umbrella of appropriate strategy that is developed in line with the company’s major business objectives. </em></em></em></p><p>The thesis work is focused on developing a model that assist the design of a maintenance strategy which is linked with the company’s major business objectives. And for this the balanced score card approach is utilized. Then the model’s application is tested in a case company with the general procedures described below.</p><p>The business requirements by the customers, which are translated to business objectives of the case company, were used as starting points. Then the production performance indicators were checked for their effectiveness in addressing the business objectives of the company. After this, a maintenance strategy with approaches to address the business objectives of the company, which are expressed by the production performance indicators, was developed with potential maintenance performance indicators.</p><p>The result showed that the different elements incorporated in the model developed are appropriate in linking the maintenance activities with the company’s business objectives as can be observed from the analysis made on the case company.</p>
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:vxu-5564 |
Date | January 2009 |
Creators | Hailemariam, Matias |
Publisher | Växjö University, School of Technology and Design |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Student thesis, text |
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