Abstract
Pharmaceutical industries are continuously seeking out new strategies to improve their operations and gain a competitive advantage. Maintenance tends to be a key management issue for many pharmaceutical companies. Proper maintenance management requires information about maintenance performance for the planning and controlling of maintenance processes. However, it is generally difficult to reconcile production and maintenance goals. This work presents an integrated management system that can help in finding optimal maintenance strategies via a multi-object approach. The availability of an integrated system allows for detecting potential management problems and optimizing costs. Furthermore, the proposed method offers significant additional input data that can be useful to analysts for improving maintenance management.
Highlights
IntroductionThe pharmaceutical industry can be defined as a collection of complex processes, operations and organizations
The pharmaceutical industry can be defined as a collection of complex processes, operations and organizations.In the pharmaceutical industry, authorities are raising the standards of good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements in order for companies to introduce the concept of "continuous improvement", as affirmed by Liker (2003) in his work "The Toyota Way" [1]
Authorities are raising the standards of good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements in order for companies to introduce the concept of "continuous improvement", as affirmed by Liker (2003) in his work "The Toyota Way" [1]
Summary
The pharmaceutical industry can be defined as a collection of complex processes, operations and organizations. Authorities are raising the standards of good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements in order for companies to introduce the concept of "continuous improvement", as affirmed by Liker (2003) in his work "The Toyota Way" [1]. There is the strong perception that bad maintenance is a major cause of organizational problems; it is necessary to invest in maintenance improvement [3]. We have gained experience from various optimization projects and believe that pharmaceutical companies still require a business process model for realizing a manufacturing culture [7]. Recent surveys [8] have indicated that 33 cents of every dollar spent on maintenance costs is wasted in the US manufacturing industry as the result of unnecessary and improperly carried out maintenance
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