Maintenance systems in a lean enterprise

Maintenance systems are important to the functioning of an efficient production system. The importance of this function within an organization's operations centers around the ability to produce high quality finish goods reliably with minimal interruption and down time.

The maintenance or engineering department should not be the only employees that get involved in the maintenance of the plant. Both plant operators and managers should be involved as well in order to gain familiarity with the equipment and be able to troubleshoot problems and perform minor maintenance tasks when the engineering team is not available or working on higher value added tasks.

The following pages provide more information on maintenance systems and approaches to maintaining plant and equipment:

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Autonomous Maintenance

Maintenance programs and strategies

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