Physical assets reliability through a mix of surveillance and scheduled maintenance

Peter Muganyi, Charles Mbohwa

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Abstract

The maintenance of physical assets in asset intensive organizations entails different techniques to ensure high equipment uptime and reliability. The selection of a mix of maintenance strategies that are deployed in a firm is highly influenced by diverse organizational factors such as resources availability. This study was undertaken to assess the types and depth of scheduled and surveillance maintenance that a manufacturing firm embarked on. The effectiveness of the maintenance actions emanating from the scheduled and surveillance maintenance scheme was studied to ascertain the ability of the maintenance mix to improve the physical assets' reliability, and to assess whether the maintenance mix was adequate to ensure the required assets performance. The missing aspects of maintenance strategic actions to ensure high physical assets reliability were also examined as a means to improve the reliability performance on the ground.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)243-254
Number of pages12
JournalProceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Volume2018
Issue numberSEP
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event3rd North American IEOM Conference. IEOM 2018 -
Duration: 27 Sept 201829 Sept 2018

Keywords

  • Availability
  • Maintenance actions
  • Reliability
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Surveillance maintenance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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