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Maintenance Impact on Company Competitiveness and Profit

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This chapter discusses the role of maintenance in relation to company profit. It discusses how the internal effectiveness & creation and improvement of company competitiveness may be improved with better maintenance practices. In order to achieve better competitiveness a conceptual model for integrating the operative and strategic level of operation is developed that is able to identify, quantify & eliminate losses in company profit.

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  1. Department of Engineering, Linnaeus University, Småland, Sweden

    Basim Al-Najjar

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  1. , Dept. of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, Delft, 2628 BX, Netherlands

    Telli Van der Lei

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    Paulien Herder

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    Ype Wijnia

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Al-Najjar, B. (2012). Maintenance Impact on Company Competitiveness and Profit. In: Van der Lei, T., Herder, P., Wijnia, Y. (eds) Asset Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2724-3_8

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