Maintenance management assessment in a local manufacturing company

Abstract

Modern maintenance management is not only to repair broken equipment. Modern maintenance management is to keep the equipment running at high capacity and produce quality products at lowest possible cost. There are numerous maintenance management strategies or framework that can be implemented in order to have the best maintenance practice. Assessment needs to be carried out to identify the weaknesses of the current maintenance management system. This is to ensure that the organization is implementing the correct strategy for the maintenance management system. This study is carried out at Prent Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. In order to achieve the objective identified, literature was review, methodology identified, afterward the data was collected and analyzed using quantitative analysis. The assessment was carried out by the top management and the staff that are involved in maintenance. Assessment was carried out based on 16 factors of maintenance management. Questionnaire and AHP method was used to identify the weakness area. Base on the data collected and analysis made, the three weakest area are predictive engineering, maintenance automation and maintenance planning and scheduling. Maintenance strategy was implemented to improve the weaknesses in order to increase performance, to provide an effective maintenance management system, provide control for maintenance activities, improve quality and to optimize the maintenance processes. OEE, MTBF and MTTR were been used as indicators to monitor the maintenance management systems performance.