Track: Engineering Management

Abstract

The maintenance of physical assets in asset intensive organizations entails different techniques to ensure high equipment uptime and reliability. The selection of a mix of maintenance strategies that are deployed in a firm is highly influenced by diverse organizational factors such as resources availability. This study was undertaken to assess the types and depth of scheduled and surveillance maintenance that a manufacturing firm embarked on. The effectiveness of the maintenance actions emanating from the scheduled and surveillance maintenance scheme was studied to ascertain the ability of the maintenance mix to improve the physical assets’ reliability, and to assess whether the maintenance mix was adequate to ensure the required assets performance. The missing aspects of maintenance strategic actions to ensure high physical assets reliability were also examined as a means to improve the reliability performance on the ground.