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Maintenance quality

13 Oct 2016

Maintenance productivity – benchmark for production plants

by Peter Schick | posted in: Maintenance, Maintenance excellence, Maintenance productivity, Maintenance quality | 0

High maintenance productivity is the hallmark of established, in-house maintenance. Operators need to optimize this to remain competitive. more in Servicereport (German)….

9 May 2016

Profit growth by maintenance excellence

by Peter Schick | posted in: Maintenance, Maintenance excellence, Maintenance lead time, Maintenance productivity, Maintenance quality | 0

A widely underestimated profit potential of many companies is maintenance in production and customer service. Usually maintenance can not find management attention. Neither is maintenance performance on the agenda of management meetings, nor do the members of the executive have … Continued

30 May 2015

Why maintenance often does not create more return on sales and return on capital?

by Peter Schick | posted in: Maintenance quality, Technical services | 0

The application of methods within maintenance was substantially expanded during the last three decades. However the effect of maintenance on return on sales and return on capital remained rather marginal. Trend charts mostly exhibit variations of maintenance quality and productivity. … Continued


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