Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era: Advancing in the Era of Smart Machines

– Organize the up-to-date history of equipment in five phases for easy understanding of the topic.
– Provides a practical guide in maintenance logistics such as planning for headcount, budget, training and development, customer management, vendor contract management, and inventory management.
– Point outs the fundamental internal flaw in maintenance organizational setup - The goals of the maintenance department are no aligned with corporate goals. If equipment is free of failures, the maintenance department would not exist. It is not in the best interest of maintenance managers to reduce downtime. Growing the maintenance business means more downtime and less output for the corporation.
– Provides a systems model for analyzing equipment management.
– Proposes new approaches to replace maintenance functional setup and provides a practical transformation and implementation process for companies to transition from the maintenance era to the post-maintenance era.