Maintenance Brigade Strategic Planning and Organizational Change
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This research paper addresses the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in hospital maintenance. It discusses the effective utilization of mechanics in strategic maintenance planning advocates the use of relay-type of maintenance brigade system (MBS), a system-based mechanic assignment techniques based on self-balancing bucket system created by Bartholdi and Eisenstein was thus adopted and tested. The MBS was compared to traditional assignment techniques via mechanic availability and mechanic utilization each at different levels according to maintenance performance assessment values. The results obtained with MBS showed some improvements compared to the traditional method of maintenance. The MBS had performance, utilization and productivity scores of: 91.7%, 92.3%,93.2% respectively compared to 71.4%, 69.2%, 69.2% respectively. The replacement time to service power generating set1 using MBS was approximately eleven hours lesser than the actual time compared to the traditional method.
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