Reducing the cost of preventive maintenance (PM) through adopting a proactive reliability-focused culture

TLDR: The economic and political realities of the 1990s forced managers to reverse long-standing organizational cultures in order to reduce costs and energy expenditures in their organisations as discussed by the authors, and these can be achieved, with respect to maintenance, by replacing a reactive repair-focused attitude by a proactive reliability-focused culture.

About: This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2006-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 168 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preventive maintenance.

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Figure 2. The impact of PM on revenue losses [24].

Table 2: Considerations with respect to maintenance costs [25]

Table 1: Features that should be taken into account when evaluating the lostopportunity

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In this paper, the authors proposed a proactive maintenance and asset management approach to reduce the cost of maintenance in large-scale manufacturing plants.