Linking maintenance strategies to performance

In order to achieve world-class performance, more and more companies are re placing their reactive, fire-fighting strategies for maintenance with proac tive strategies like preventive and predictive maintenance and aggressive s trategies like total productive maintenance (TPM). While these newer mainte nance strategies require increased commitments to training, resources and i ntegration, they also promise to improve performance. This paper reports th e results of a study of the relationship between maintenance strategies and performance. Based on the responses from a survey of plant managers and ma intenance managers, the analysis shows strong positive relationships betwee n proactive and aggressive maintenance strategies and performance. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.