Management and operations maintenance for a water treatment and supply company

João Filipe Lourenço Gomes Calais, Susana Garrido Azevedo, João Carlos De Oliveira Matias and João Paulo Da Silva Catalão

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017, vol. 25, issue 3, 360-382

Abstract: This paper intends to highlight the importance of the maintenance activity for all kind of companies in general and for the water treatment companies in particular. To attain this objective, a literature review on the evolution of the maintenance concept, the relation between the production function and the total productive maintenance (TPM) and the factors that influence the success of TPM is performed. To demonstrate the contribution of the maintenance activity for the improvement of the performance of companies especially for the water treatment companies, a case study of a Portuguese company belonging to the water treatment sector is performed. The water company considered in the case study, regarding management and maintenance activities, has an annual capacity of treatment and distribution of 41 million m³ of drinking water to approximately 438,000 inhabitants spread over a geographic area that represents 15% of the Portuguese territory.

Keywords: management; operations maintenance; environmental monitoring; water treatment; water supply; production function; total productive maintenance; TPM; case study; Portugal; drinking water. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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