Trends in Lean Maintenance Implementation in Production Companies: Research Results

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors highlight the benefits of using Lean Maintenance, showing and discussing obtained results from studying industrial companies and concluding about used tools and level of this concept implementation in their activity. For obtaining the base results for this work, surveys were used for research carried out in enterprises. Some questionnaires were sent to companies, in Poland, for being possible to acquire some data from their experience and results by using Lean Maintenance. As main achievements of this study, it can be concluded that levels of application of Lean Maintenance, and respective used tools, are different, when analyzed by the type of company: small, medium, or large. In most companies, the employment level of maintenance services has not changed significantly due to the implementation of Lean Maintenance. Only in large enterprises and mostly with numerical machines, the employment level of maintenance services employees decreased. Large enterprises achieved the greatest benefits from the implementation of Lean Maintenance tools.