With sustainability becoming central to strategies and performance goals for manufacturers, maintenance, as a key function for better asset and resources utilisation, conservation, and useful life extension, would be expected to be a central area of inquiry in sustainability initiatives. However, this is not often the case, and many aspects of maintenance contribution to sustainability remain unexplored and untapped. Thus, motivating this research work.
This work took the initiative to investigate the practice, impact, and contribution of nine maintenance functions from various manufacturers across sectors to a triple-bottom-line perspective of sustainability. The findings uncovered that advanced practice in maintenance, i.e., well-managed and well-performed maintenance, contributes to the sustainability as well as the companies’ goals and strategic priorities from multiple…
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