Abstract
Evidently, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany do not use sophisticated asset management techniques like Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as widely as large organisations. Despite the advantages these techniques yield they match the needs of SME insufficiently, which leads to a so called implementation gap. Main reason is that they appear to require too many internal resources that need to be balanced against the gains. The Institute for Industrial Management at RWTH Aachen has tackled this challenge and devised tools that help asset managers in SMEs to implement sophisticated management tools in their company. This article describes two tools, the IH-Check and the FMEA-Analyzer, that help SMEs to reduce the implementation gap.
Parts of this publication have already been published in Schuh et al. (2010), Winter (2008), Winter and Lorenz (2008), Winter and Lorenz (2009).
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Winter, CP., Fabry, C. (2012). Closing the Implementation Gap for SMEs - Tools for Enabling Asset Management in Small and Medium Enterprises. In: Van der Lei, T., Herder, P., Wijnia, Y. (eds) Asset Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2724-3_10
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