In a competitive environment, the most successful companies are those that well manage their projects defining the right map to achieve their goals and optimizing the triptych “cost-quality-time limit”.

Considering preventive maintenance as a lean project, we propose managing its steps through a lean model integrating a useful decisional algorithm to select the appropriate NDT (non-destructive testing) techniques in the step “Method” under the “optimisation” phase of our model.

The implantation of our proposed model allows the early prediction and prevention of equipment breakdowns and so the redaction of unnecessary costs.

Keywords

Preventive maintenance; NDT; Lean; optimisation; maintenance project.