Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of operational property asset management in Scottish Councils and the extent to which this achieves best value. Appropriate criteria for evaluating asset management effectiveness include the effective use of capital resources,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help build up a relevant database for mapping technical and financial effectiveness of production in order to make cost‐effective maintenance decisions. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model is developed based on past research and...

Maintenance management is expected to plan for all maintenance activities for the life of the equipment. It must be able to forecast and plan the future maintenance requirements of spares, man‐hours and total costs. As equipment ages and enters the wear‐out stage, with increasing failure...

Purpose – This paper aims to revisit the preventive maintenance scheduling literature. The problem to be solved is the simultaneous scheduling of resource‐constrained preventive maintenance and operations. In particular, the expression that defines the period‐dependent cost function for a...

Purpose – The paper seeks to ease the implementation of predictive maintenance policy in industry using the root cause analysis technique, and to compare the reliability and cost effectiveness of root cause based maintenance (RCBM) relative to conventional corrective maintenance (CM)....

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to systematically identify important factors that are considered in decision making of maintenance cost and discuss how these factors affect maintenance performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs triangulation technique, which...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical analysis of today's most common calculation methods for maintenance budgets in Europe. The methods are quantitatively validated using the real lifecycle data of 17 exemplary buildings. As a result, a new approach for the budgeting of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the fundamental factors influencing maintenance costs of logistic buildings and to provide benchmark indications for designing maintenance efficient warehouses that contribute to the enhancement of business performance....

Purpose – The factors contributing to maintenance cost include the life‐long environmental factors that the building is exposed to during its useful life as well as parameters relating to the design, construction and maintenance processes. The performance of risk associated with these...

Purpose – The objectives of this paper are to identify and assess the factors that affect the cost of maintenance of hospital facilities. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a literature review on hospital maintenance cost to identify the factors affecting the cost of...