The traditional view of Maintenance is machine-based, where acute Maintenance tasks are highly valued. Preventive Maintenance is viewed as secondary and less desirable to work with. The more modern view is to regard Maintenance as a process. The machine-driven tasks are still necessary but are viewed as a part of the big picture.The purpose of this study is to examine how to high light general difficulties concerning Maintenance management to aid organizations to reflecting upon their own situation. The study is based upon a pilot study initiated by ProcessIT concerning relevant key figures in Maintenance.

Westhelicopter INC. has an aviation workshop providing qualified helicopter Maintenance in accordance with PART-145. Maintenance and administrative base is situated in Luleå at Kallax airport. The types that Westhelicopter INC are currently authorised to service are: Eurocopter AS 350 Base/Line Maintenance, Eurocopter EC 120 Base/Line Maintenance and Robinsson R44 Base/Line Maintenance. The thesis work has been to make new Maintenance programme for Westhelicopter INC. This Maintenance programme will be used to follow-up the time of the components, service bulletins and ADs.

As a result of global competition, companies within the automotive industry are required to improve their production systems to achieve sustainable and competitive production. To attain operational excellence, companies have adopted concepts like lean and World Class Manufacturing (WCM).In order to deliver, companies need to increase the availability and reliability of production equipment. This demands focus on both operational and strategic Maintenance, and efficient equipment acquisition and management. The main objective of this thesis is to identify processes and success factors that are necessary for improved Maintenance performance. By conducting a case study and by performing a literature review, the following has been studied: 1) how companies within the automotive industry work with Maintenance and Maintenance strategies, 2) implementation of Maintenance strategies, and 3) new acquisition and spare parts management for Maintenance. The results show that basic Maintenance concepts and related terms are well defined in the literature.

This thesis examines how a company can get an effective, high quality, Maintenance of their computerized systems. After literary studies concerning the life cycle activity Maintenance we have studied how the Maintenance at the department IT Supply of IKEA IT AB in Älmhult is carried out. What steps and measures in the analyzing of results of changes are carried out and if they have predefined processes for changes. Based on the facts we found most important in our literary studies we have created a model and theoretically applied this to the Maintenance of a specific system to see what they can work with to further improve the quality and efficiency in their Maintenance. The basis for our thesis is literary studies and the collected material has been used as a foundation for the research at the company, which was carried out through interviews.

The change in course recently taken by the Swedish Armed Forces results in an increased use of equipment, and thereby increased requirements of preventive Maintenance. This paper aims to examine the current responsibilities for preventive Maintenance in an army unit. The intended effect of this examination is to disclose possible flaws, and to help make routines for preventive Maintenance more effective.The questions asked in this paper are;Who, in an army unit, is responsible for the routine Maintenance?When is this responsibility valid?What demands does the technical service have on responsibilities for the routine Maintenance?How are these demands met?How ought to be responsible for the routine Maintenance?To answer these questions the author has chosen to use a descriptive method to show the current facts. A theorizing method is chosen to, from described facts, clarify the demands of the technical service on routine Maintenance.

This thesis examines how a company can get an effective, high quality, Maintenance of their computerized systems. After literary studies concerning the life cycle activity Maintenance we have studied how the Maintenance at the department IT Supply of IKEA IT AB in Älmhult is carried out. What steps and measures in the analyzing of results of changes are carried out and if they have predefined processes for changes. Based on the facts we found most important in our literary studies we have created a model and theoretically applied this to the Maintenance of a specific system to see what they can work with to further improve the quality and efficiency in their Maintenance. The basis for our thesis is literary studies and the collected material has been used as a foundation for the research at the company, which was carried out through interviews. This thesis is based on the question: ?How do the lack of a model for Maintenance and the lack of orientation affect the Maintenance in a company??.

Due to their complexity and heavy wear from rail traffic, switches are a sensitive part of the railway infrastructure and moreover expensive to maintain. Furthermore, increasing railway traffic not only accelerates the wear rate but also obstructs the necessary Maintenance measures. This paper examines the opportunities for a transition to a long-term Maintenance strategy in the Swedish railway network. It contains a study of the Maintenance strategy of Banverket, and also analyses statistics of errors in the railway infrastructure. The survey was completed utilising interviews with infrastructure managers, Maintenance contractors, planners of railway operations and the Banverket material service department.

In theory, the management control of Maintenance functions is described as problematic due to the nature of the work performed in the unit. The purpose of this thesis is to examine these predicted problems in practice. Further,the thesis aims at identifying how these control problems may affect the relationships between the Maintenance department and its internal customers. A case study has been conducted in one of Sweden?s largest industrial companies to investigate the said control problems in practice.

This essay contains material of how the competence Maintenance works on a chosen company and how a web based tool developed for its use can help companies with competence insur-ance. As competence Maintenance is a major factor to have a long term profit it´s necessary to be aware of the company?s future needs in the competence sector. This essay describes the company?s competence Maintenance occupation needs taken from internal documents; it also identifies the need for competence Maintenance and presents multiple areas of possible im-provements.

Background: The standard of living should be the same for everyone, whether the apartment is placed in an old or new building. The residential properties that were built from 1965 until 1974 is now beginning to become old and in need of restoration. The financial crisis during the nineties contributed to the lack of Maintenance on the buildings in Sweden. As the public buildings gets older more and more defects occurs. The coordination and Maintenance will therefore have a more significant role in the housing company ?s work.The increasing interest about how old a building can be, attract much attention.

This report is a thesis on requests from Sandvik Mining and Construction (SMC) in autumn of 2012. The goal of this work was to study the feasibility of creating and implementing an Equalized preventive Maintenance program in SMC Maintenance operations and reduce downtime for preventive Maintenance (PM). To investigate whether this was possible, the authors studied the current procedures for the PM. The authors have collected and analyzed all relevant information within the Maintenance department reporting system as well as through interviews determined whether it is practical to introduce a Equalized PM programs. The authors had also studied the possibilities to entrust part of the Maintenance work to the operators of the machine cells.

This final year project is dedicated to investigate the problem domain of system Maintenance management. The purpose is to find problems in the system Maintenance management of today. Whether there is any problem that can be elicitated in the requirements engineering?s phase that could help to obtain more Maintenance management friendly systems and if it is not possible to obtain more Maintenance management friendly, what else can be done?It has been learned that there are many problems today in the problem domain and the most great ones are the system documentation, stress and a systemknowledge lack among developers, system managers and system users.The requirements that have been found for this problem is good documentation, and use of simple solutions in the creating of the system..

The purpose with this article is to give examples how to remain and in a long run develop a higher interest in Maintenance activities and knowledge. First reason is the changed age-distribution with more number of older employees among Maintenance personnel staff and second reason is demand for education due the increasing demand in environmental responsibility.In spite of there is a lot of knowledge of Maintenance in national organizations of interests it will not be used in a sufficient extent in many companies. This knowledge is an important base to use to re-built the missing or loosed skills in companies. The national organization UTEK is involved in European projects to validate knowledge of Maintenance. Lost of or bad Maintenance activities will always affect on the environment.Establish a network between companies is a good way to exchange information in their common business areas.

In this report a systematic working procedure for risk classification of processing equipment from a Maintenance point of view is described. How this system has been worked out is also an important part of the report. The classification system is adapted for use in complex processing plants. Preemraff Göteborg has been subject for the underlying study and application of the system.The system aims to give a good overview of the Maintenance related risks at the plant. Furthermore, the analysis result is a good motivation for the suggested Maintenance activities and as motivation for extended or decreased Maintenance resources in total.

Costs of Maintenance on combines are a subject of interest thus it constitute a large investment and cost for the individual farmer. Therefore it is important to have up to date knowledge and the right facts to be able to do reliable calculations on one of the largest investments for a farmer. The aim of this study was to compare costs of Maintenance on combine/threshingmachine with the computer program for advising environmental issues in agriculture, STANK. Interviews took place and data were collected by handing out questionnaires to 20 farmers. A similar study conducted by Neuman (2003) investigated costs of Maintenance and compared these with STANK. The results of this study have also been compared and examined related to data from SLA - Skogs och Lantarbetsgivarförbundet. The result shows that 18 out of 20 combines were given a higher cost of Maintenance when using STANK compared to the numbers in this study.