Profit-driven Maintenance for Physical Assets

In so many company boardrooms the term ‘maintenance’ often gives those in senior

management an uneasy feeling. Why should this be the case?

The main reason may be due to the fundamental way that they think about business. They

generally think, speak and discuss opportunities, profits, risks, new markets, added value and

costs for their business.

Meanwhile, the maintenance manager generally focuses on techniques, failures, technical

problems and workforce schemes, rather than purely costs and benefits. Maintenance costs

are seen as penalties from ‘on high’, whilst maintenance as a function is not seen as an

opportunity for business improvement, nor for creating added value.

Profit-Driven Maintenance for Physical Assets aims to fill the large gap between these two

worlds. In this updated edition, Tim Zaal treats the maintenance function as a purely businessdriven

process to fulfill the company’s main goals, and address the challenges of organizing

the maintenance activities in the most profitable way for the asset owner.

A number of methods are available for maintenance management improvement, including

Asset Management, ISO55000, TPM, RCM, WCM, FMECA, Lean, and CMMS.

With the developed ‘House of Excellent Maintenance’, each maintenance organization is able

to benchmark operational competences and readiness for adopting new ideas.

Profit-Driven Maintenance for Physical Assets provides the reader with an overview of

how all of these methods can improve the maintenance function, and how to maximize the

opportunities to utilize them. The maintenance organization and the competencies of the

people involved are also important features of this book.

For maintenance managers, output improvement and operational excellence are high on the

agenda. It is important that the maintenance function not only covers the technical aspects of

physical assets, but that there is also a thorough understanding of the business methods for

thinking about assets. We refer to this as ‘Technomics’. This approach enables communication

with senior management to take place on the basis of established business terminology, such

as profit, added value and profitability.

Who is this book for?

Profit-Driven Maintenance for Physical Assets is essential reading for anyone with an interest

in how maintenance can be viewed as a business-driven process, whether the readers are

operational managers, maintenance managers, maintenance engineers, reliability engineers,

top managers, senior (financial) staff members, manufacturers of equipment, or service

organizations.

Profit-Driven Maintenance for Physical Assets is also a valuable resource for postgraduate

students on maintenance and business engineering courses.

Profit-driven Maintenance

for Physical Assets

This book is a must-read for everybody who deals

with the maintenance function of their organization.