Vehicles Maintenance Workshops Layout and its Management to Reduce Noise Pollution and Improve Maintenance Quality

Abstract

Most of vehicle maintenance in Arab world and Jordan is random with low share of management control, this system making maintenance of vehicles going on with low reliability. The need for managing maintenance operations and workshops layout of maintenance workshops and reduce noise pollution is crucial. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of maintenance management and vehicles maintenance workshops management and workshops layout in reduce noise pollution and improving the operations of maintenance of automobiles. The observations and collecting data about status of maintenance of vehicles workshops in Jordan is used here. Data and figures about the current status of some studied workshop is presented here. A suggestion for new and multi alternatives for workshop layouts are analyzed depending on Mean Time TO repair (MTTR). It is found that improving management methods and maintenance workshops layout will reduce noise pollution and improve the maintenance operations type and decreasing MTTR for failures. MTTR, costs and quality of maintenance are important factors affected by the maintenance of vehicles workshop layout, as the layout is arranged in good and flexible way the system becomes better and MTTR decreases.