@inproceedings{35727ddf42a949fb8ede54835207c22f,
title = "Adoption of maintenance key performance indicators in the Namibian mining industry",
abstract = "The adoption of maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs) is crucial to every machine-intensive mining industry. It is important, however, to obtain an in-depth understanding of the nature and rate of adoption of these KPIs. This paper presents an assessment of the adoption of KPIs in the Namibian mining industry. It seeks to investigate the relationship between business strategy and the KPIs adopted, the approach used to derive them, the focus of the measurement system, whether emphasis is on the past or future events, and the usage of performance measurement in managing the maintenance operations. A questionnaire was designed based on concepts from the literature, and distributed to the 17 mining enterprises. A total of 7 (out of 17) responses were obtained. Results of the study indicate that the mines use KPIs fairly effectively and efficiently with some room for improvement. However, the maintenance operations were lacking in the following aspects; low of performance improvement drive, heavy reliance on lagging rather than leading indicators and the wide use of equipment related reactive indicators.",
keywords = "Adoption, Key performance indicators, Maintenance, Mining industry, Namibia",
author = "Michael Mutingi and Veiko Nangolo and Harmony Musiyarira and Charles Mbohwa",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science",
publisher = "Newswood Limited",
pages = "991--995",
editor = "Grundfest, {Warren S.} and Craig Douglas and Ao, {S. I.}",
booktitle = "WCECS 2016 - World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2016",
note = "2016 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2016 ; Conference date: 19-10-2016 Through 21-10-2016",
}
