Maintenance Improvement Connected to Organizational Learning
In the quest toward world-class manufacturing,many industries are appreciating the need for efficient maintenance systems that have been effectively integrated with corporate strategy. New production management techniques, such as JIT and flexible and agile manufacturing, demand quick response times and equipment availability.
Riis and Neergaard 3s argue that there is a need to link manufacturing planning to the perspectives of individual behavior, decision support, management systems and organizational structure, and corporate culture.
These authors develop a multifactor "organizational learning model" as a new manufacturing paradigm.
This model, illustrated in Figure 3, includes both formal and informal dimensions in a company.