Maintenance Engineer Question:

Maintenance in the manufacturing environment is one of the most complicated types of maintenance in comparison to construction, transportation and service business. Manufacturing is becoming highly competitive with extremely high pressure in reducing cost and increasing value of assets and improving the quality of outcomes (products). Manufacturing systems has grown over the years to be parts of global networks and supply chains. All of these changes in the manufacturing business have put maintenance in a great pressure on developing more effective and efficient operations.

Other special feature of manufacturing environment that makes it distinct from other environment is its complicated interrelation with large number of stakeholders, internal and external. The management structure in manufacturing environment is usually highly structured with many several decision layers and many parallel functional areas.