MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT IN QUICK RESPONSE SYSTEMS
Lenka Branska
University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, lenka.branska@upce.cz
Abstract
A trend has been currently growing to integrate business logistics systems in supply chains and to
implement new methods (such as Quick Response) for logistics performance increasing. All systems based on
synchronization of material flows fail if production facilities in each successive production show a high
number of accidents and subsequent repairs after failure. The maintenance in Quick Response systems is
extremely important. The maintenance system must be clearly focused on prevention. It can be designed
being based on several of modern methods of maintenance, such as TPM and RCM methods, whose
principles it uses and appropriately combines. Moreover, in the maintenance management in companies
involved in the chain, it seems desirable to cooperate in the maintenance with the customers and suppliers. In
this paper is a proposal for modification of maintenance system in an enterprise that is part of a chain
operating on the basis of the Quick Response method.
Keywords: Supply chain management, Quick response, maintenance management, Total productive
maintenance, Reliability centred maintenance.
JEL Classification: M11, M21.