期刊名称：International Journal of Research in Management, Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2321-3264
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：4
出版社：Prannath Parnami Institute of Management & Technology, Hisar
摘要：This study examines the effects of production facilities maintenance on the competitive advantage of selected process manufacturing firms in Nigeria focusing on the reactive, preventive, predictive, reliability centre and total productive maintenance strategies and their relationship to cost of manufacturing operations, product quality, productivity target, on-time delivery and profitability. We adopted the descriptive survey method for the study wherein thirty copies of a structured questionnaire on five points Likert scale with Crombach alpha of 0.703 was used to obtain data from the study population of thirty (30)respondents across the various units in the study organizations and analyzed the data obtained with E-views software package in co-integration statistics. We found out that reactive maintenance strategy has direct and indirect cost implications on manufacturing operations; positive significant relationship exists between preventive maintenance strategy and product quality determination; predictive maintenance strategy exerts positive influence on productivity target; reliability centre maintenance significantly accounts for on-time delivery in meeting customers’ expectation and total productive maintenance was equally found out to have positive effect on profit contribution. The study therefore recommends that every manufacturing firm should integrate maintenance budgets into organizational objectives and have functional maintenance centres; Manufacturing firms should be committed to high maintenance culture to minimize production losses and wastes. Preventive maintenance education and training should be given to every machine operator on regular basis and implementation of preventive maintenance actions be monitored by the head of maintenance department to reduce the chances of machine breakdown
