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Understanding Maintenance Decisions: How to Support Acquisition of Capital Assets

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This chapter contributes with theoretical and practical insights on maintenance decision making during acquisition of capital assets. We give theoretical insights about maintenance decision making by reviewing the literature, while our practical insights come from examples of the decisions made at a maintenance organization for rolling stock: NedTrain. We find that strategic maintenance decisions are more relevant before contracting than tactical or operational decisions, and they have the largest potential to impact Life Cycle Costs. The research on strategic maintenance decisions is too broad to review individual decisions, and therefore we review papers that structure decisions in the form of frameworks. We find that according to the literature, assets and their maintenance services should be developed concurrently. However, we find in practice that NedTrain’s approach is to fit new assets into the existing maintenance services, while there are parallel continuous improvement processes for those services. From practice, we conclude that strategic maintenance decisions are not concurrent to rolling stock design decisions. We also conclude that there is a need for methods and tools to support strategic maintenance decision making during early stages of acquisition, especially before contracting.

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Acknowledgments

This research is part of the “Rolling Stock Life Cycle Logistics” applied research and development program, funded by NS/NedTrain. We thank the experts at NedTrain for their invaluable help and insights. The second and third authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF). LRF helps to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research. We also extend our words of gratitude to our colleagues from the chair of Maintenance Engineering and to the reviewers for their invaluable help in improving this chapter.

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    Jorge E. Parada Puig, Rob J. I. Basten & Leo A. M. van Dongen

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Parada Puig, J.E., Basten, R.J.I., van Dongen, L.A.M. (2015). Understanding Maintenance Decisions: How to Support Acquisition of Capital Assets. In: Redding, L., Roy, R. (eds) Through-life Engineering Services. Decision Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6_13

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