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Developing a value stream map to evaluate breakdown maintenance operations

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  • Rapinder Sawhney
  • Soundararajan Kannan
  • Xueping Li

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Maintenance management has found new vigor and purpose to increase equipment capacity and capability due to increasing focus on lean manufacturing (lean) in today's competitive environment. Tremendous efforts have been made to develop different types of maintenance strategies for enhancing the performance of equipment but nothing has been done to actually streamline Breakdown Maintenance Activities (BMA). This refers to systematically evaluating the Non-Value Added (NVA) activities within BM. The primary lean tool that provides insights on identifying and analysing NVA activities is Value Stream Mapping (VSM). However, traditional VSM cannot be utilised 'as is' because the BMA do not completely correspond with VSM terminology. Therefore, this paper develops a VSM to evaluate BM operations.

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  • Rapinder Sawhney & Soundararajan Kannan & Xueping Li, 2009. "Developing a value stream map to evaluate breakdown maintenance operations," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(3), pages 229-240.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:4:y:2009:i:3:p:229-240
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