Track: Engineering Management
Abstract
Every organization’s desire is to realize perfect processes, systems, physical assets and ultimately the perfect goods generated as a result of all the perfect input resources. However, in practice, this is not always tenable, as there are militating factors that deduct the aspects that drive a system or product to perfection. Perfect repair of physical assets is the ultimate aim of maintenance service provision by the maintenance function in various manufacturing firms, but the reality on the ground is far from perfect. A study was conducted to understand the drawbacks that derail the maintenance function from attaining perfect repair of their physical assets, and the acceptable actions that the maintenance function need to embark on to draw their physical assets to near perfectly maintained or repaired.