Optimising Maintenance Costs in Times of Business Crisis
As competition increases it‘s important to reduce the maintenance costs. However the maintenance costs should not be viewed independently. They must be seen in conjunction with the production downtime costs. The downtime costs for complex machinery are often more than 2.000 EUR per hour. Increased automation and linking of equipment lead to a higher susceptance to failure and therefore to higher downtime costs. Therefore the goal must be to optimize the maintenance costs considering equipment availability.
