Category: Papers

This paper is a contribution to the principal issues in formulation maintenance strategy and the integration of resources to conducting a wide range of tasks. The strategy relies on the implementation of rigorous systems and the use of information technology for decision support. An aspect of maintenance support is value add work where asset performance…

This paper summarises recent experiences in developing effective working relationships between clients and the contracted maintenance service providers. The work is drawn across a range of industries including manufacturing, utilities and facilities, with remarkably similar issues being common to all. The emphasis on improvement requires three key attributes in the day-to-day working relationship: a vision…

This paper presents material associated with assessing the effectiveness of a variety of condition monitoring approaches within the context of a predictive/preventative maintenance strategy. It promotes the concept that earlier thinking on the application of RCM may need to be assessed in the light of the growth of lower cost predictive maintenance and life forecasting…

Maintenance is a lifetime of sustained effort to ensure that the assets of acompany continue to provide a service that will ensure that the organisationcan provide its designated service. As a consequence a maintenancecontract has very different business goals from the provision of servicesthrough construction or a one-off engineering exercise.

A quality document for maintenance was developed to assist project managers for a contract maintenance provider to understand the requirements for the delivery of their services. The manual was intended to form part of the quality system of the company, bridging between the general procedures observed under ISO9000 and the day-to-day running of the operation.…