Maintenance Organization and Budget

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this chapter is to describe the features and organizational structure used in asset maintenance and to show how the maintenance budget can be created and managed.

Outcomes: After reading this chapter, you will be aware of the main features of the maintenance function including maintenance, technical services, workflow management and budgeting.

Topics:

• Maintenance aim

• Maintenance organization

• Maintenance layout

• Types of maintenance activity

• Maintenance work management

• Planning, scheduling and control

• Planners checklist

• Prioritization

• Information flow

• Personnel roles

• Weekly scheduling process

• Maintenance budgeting

• Zero-based budgeting

• Direct labor, indirect labor and overheads

• Backlog

• Budget cost control

• Budget reports

• Activity based costing.

“Mankind’s Greatest Invention is not the Wheel but the Bearing.”

Will Scott, Professor of Tribology, Queensland University of Technology