...Wieger Tiddens; Jan Braaksma; Tiedo Tinga Purpose Asset owners and maintainers need to make timely and well-informed maintenance decisions based on the actual or predicted condition of their physical assets. However, only few companies have succeeded to implement predictive maintenance (PdM...

... in manufacturing industry. Originality/value This paper shows the results from three years of formulation, implementation, and evaluation of maintenance strategies. Failures in production systems may cause high losses, e.g. lost production time or volume, negative impact on the environment, lost customers...

...F. Ireland; B.G. Dale This paper focuses on a study of total productive maintenance (TPM) in three companies. The companies implemented TPM because of the business difficulties they faced. In all three companies senior management had supported TPM and set up suitable organisational structures...

...C.J. Bamber; J.M. Sharp; M.T. Hides Modern manufacturing requires that to be successful organisations must be supported by both effective and efficient maintenance. One approach to improving the performance of maintenance activities is to implement and develop a total productive maintenance (TPM...