The Need for an Effective Collaborative Production-Maintenance Approach to Improve Productivity

Abstract

Technological innovations, customer expectations in particular, and globalization in general have reinforced the nessecity to increase productivity. There is constant market changes with decreased life cycle of products, rapid technological developments and more demanding customers. In order to improve productivity, industrial enterprises turn to either ameliorate their production or the maintenance of their equipment, parallelly with the cost function in both cases. Nonetheless, these two methods are disadvantageous because they make their neighboring function to suffer, thereby creating the inverse effects of those initially expected. Moreover, seeking to increase performance in the current industrial systems leads the integration of various services in the global management of manufacturing firms. This paper, aims to demostrate that increasing productivity requires the interaction between the production and maintenance functions. However, this interaction must be well structured for a better efficiency. In fact, industrial productivity cannot be adequately improved if the collaborative approach, "production-maintenance", is not effective in an enterprise.

Keywords: Productivity; Production; Maintenance; Integrated Production-Maintenance Management; Production-Maintenance Cooperation.

DOI: 10.7176/IEL/10-3-04

Publication date: November 30^th 2020