Abstract:
The concept of lean maintenance is promoted to eliminate maintenance waste and to maximise
efficiency of the manufacturing process for overall cost reduction. The optimum usage of labour,
material and technology is thus, proposed to eliminate waste during the maintenance process. This
paper proposes a maintainability approach to minimise maintenance waste in order to promote lean
maintenance concept to the construction industry. The approach has widened the focus of existing lean
maintenance concept by moving it boundaries from the maintenance phase to early phases of the
development process.
Eight challenges of lean maintenance have been established from fifty one maintainability causes of
high-rise buildings. Their impact to maintenance cost was evaluated using a case study and found 40%
reduction in the maintenance cost as wastage.
Citation:
De Silva, N., Ranasinghe, M., & De Silva, C.R. (2012). Maintainability approach for lean maintenance. In S. Senaratne & Y.G. Sandanayake (Eds.), Global challenges in construction industry (pp. 100-109). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2012-Proceedings.pdf
