Purpose: High maintenance cost is the common issue in building industry due to low service quality of maintenance management in Malaysia. Lack of preventive measure is the problem that implicates poor maintenance performance. Scheduled maintenance is suggested to improve the maintenance performance. However, the effectiveness of scheduled maintenance can be greatly influenced by the availabilit...

Knowledge based on personal experience (tacit knowledge) acquired in problem solving actions and maintenance is the fundamental basis for technicians companies with great physical assets. Generally, there no proper policy managing strategic knowledge its capture. In this article, through qualitative studies (grounded theory) surveys conducted technicians, aim was to obtain perception of technic...

As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle management is becoming a crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions necessary for such a society while minimizing material and energy consumption. From this viewpoint, we should redefine the role of maintenance as a prime method for life cycle management. In this paper, we first dis...

Highways and in particular their pavements are the fundamental components of the road network. They require continuous maintenance since they deteriorate due to changing traffic and environmental conditions. Monitoring methods and efficient pavement management systems are needed for optimizing maintenance operations. Pavement performance prediction models are useful tools for determining the op...

The growing interest in technicians’ workloads research is probably associated with the recent surge in competition. This was prompted by unprecedented technological development that triggers changes in customer tastes and preferences for industrial goods. In a quest for business improvement, this worldwide intense competition in industries has stimulated theories and practical frameworks that ...

This paper analyzes an existing maintenance management system in a cement factory in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using a modified questionnaire. The analysis shows that there are strong areas such as predictive maintenance and maintenance automation. Other areas are found weak such as training programs and maintenance reporting. Some areas are found mix between strong and weak such as maintenan...

organizational culture is that has attracted the attention of a large number of specialists and interested people to management science because of its publicity ,and the term “culture “ alone with is synonyms has arrived into management literature in last decades. this topic has attracted such a great attention that has made managers very careful in decision making in all organization fields. o...

Objective To explore the application value of PDCA cycle combined with intensive maintenance quality management mode in hospital medical devices management. Methods In order to improve level devices, was adopted maintenance, and efficiency verified. Results After mode, stain-free rate device surfaces integrity registration information were significantly improved (2=37.425,2=21.218; P<0.01), ...