12 Maintenance Management and Control
12.1 Introduction
The management and control of maintenance-related activities are equally important to performing maintenance. Maintenance management may be described as the function of providing policy guidance for maintenance-related activities, in addition to exercising technical and management control of maintenance programs [1, 2]. Generally, as the maintenance activity’s size and group increases, the need for better management and control becomes essential.
In the past, the typical size of a maintenance group in a manufacturing establishment varied from around 5% to 10% of the operating group [3]. Today, the proportional size of the maintenance effort compared to the ...
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