In Search Of Best Practices In Industrial Maintenance: Some Underlying Factors

Business requirements and characteristics of production systems determine the effective modes of operations in industrial maintenance. In order to identify the best practices the first task is to identify the best performance in various business environments using relevant key performance indicators. The next step is to identify the modes of operations which create the best performance. There are several research strategies to find out the best practices. However, there are a lot of challenges in data collection and therefore a research process requires a long term roadmap in order to boost knowledge on behavior behind peak performance. This paper presents some of the results of a long research process, which form a solid basis for determining the best practices in the area of industrial maintenance.