Need for Objective in Maintenance and Plant Engineering

The maintenance manager requires an objective for interpreting the goals of the organisation translated into terms of departmental aims in long-term (policy/strategy) and short-term (task) both bases. To attain the design life of the equipment, security of the operators, assets and the production output of the plant an appropriate policy is needed to be framed. Therefore the maintenance objective must be in accordance and compatible with the objective of the organisation. At the same time the energy utilization and consumption of certain consumables & spare parts is to be optimised. For this the maintenance manager is supposed to wholly understand his resources & requirements of his department in addition to that of the organisation. These are exhibited through the following diagram.

Figure:  Resources and Requirements for Translating the Corporate Objectives into Maintenance Objectives