Ideal Maintenance Management to Reduce Product Cost

Competition, it’s a race between individuals or organizations that do the same job to get better results. Companies are continually improving and developing their processes so they can be in this race. One of these processes is maintenance management and has a direct impact on the product cost. Some of these costs; the cost of spare parts, the cost of production stoppage (breakdown or scheduled maintenance), the cost of labor, the inability to produce products at the desired speed or quality (the lack of care or incorrect maintenance) ... etc. The more efficient of the maintenance management process, the better the cost of the product will be reflected and the good quality product will be achieved at the time to the customer. In this paper, factors affecting maintenance costs in companies and the type of maintenance management that could be applied to reduce these costs were studied. In this area, in particular the management of spare parts and the maintenance strategy (planned and corrective maintenance) adapted to the equipment were examined