Managing maintenance resources for efficient asset utilization

Asset productivity is concerned with how an asset is efficiently and effectively deployed and utilized. It is related to

maintenance resource management. The purpose of this paper is to discuss development of policies for managing

integrated maintenance resources. These resources include human resource and supporting material required to

perform maintenance activities for a complex maintenance system. Here, human resource management

encompasses policy for recruitment, training, and outsourcing. Meanwhile, supporting material management

includes policy for parts purchasing and inventory. Good asset productivity can be achieved by attaining a better

performance of the asset using the same amount of maintenance resources or by reducing the amount of

maintenance resources used for the same asset performance. A maintenance department may manage each kind

of resources and have its own policy to achieve better asset productivity. In this way, an integrated policy with all

related departments is required. In this research, a model to determine an integrated optimum policy with

associated departments is developed. It consists of three sub models representing three different departments in

an organisation including Maintenance, Human Resource, and Inventory and Purchasing department. Through the

model, some combinations of the policies can be made and tested to find the best combined policy that, in turn,

can help to generate better asset productivity.