Book - Maintenance Management its Auditing and Benchmarking

Author : Tony Kelly

The term ‘audit’ has come to mean the process of inspecting and checking a company’s accounts. From time to time companies also need to audit the other aspects of their managerial activities, those concerned with production, sales, maintenance and so on. Auditing the management of maintenance involves inspecting and checking the managerial activities concerned - the setting of strategy, the formation of organisations, the designing of systems – and then the essential linkages with other functions of the company: production, stores control and so forth. Such an audit maps (ie models and describes) the existing maintenance management processes in order to assess their cost-effectiveness (the most fundamental measure of their degree of excellence).

 

The author shows how he has developed a unique procedure for auditing the management of the maintenance both of productive plant and infrastructures (eg of petrochemical processing installations and of vehicle fleets). Case studies demonstrate the application of the procedure to comprehensive audits of several weeks duration, to ‘fingerprint’ audits taking perhaps a day or so, and to benchmarking exercises.

 

Industrial managers absorbing the ideas and procedures presented in this book will be better able to audit for themselves their own maintenance departments, or to specify such audits when they are to be undertaken by external consultants. Such an investigation will highlight existing problems and identify their causes – a necessary process before embarking on major organisational or system change.

 

Published in 2002

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