Characterization of industrial maintenance in some companies in Manizales and its surrounding towns

Abstract

Industrial maintenance is a human being activity which guarantees the existence of a service within an expected quality; is also divided into preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance. It will be preventive, if the tasks were done for avoiding lose the quality, and corrective if the works are necessary because the quality of the service was already lost. In this context, Industrial Maintenance was the central theme in the research work, carried out in fifty-six (56) companies of Manizales (Colombia) and Bordering municipalities, with the purpose of to determine the different types of maintenance applied depending on the type of business, process, size, and knowledge of the existing theory on this subject. The study focused its analysis on the results of a survey which it was done by the people in charge of maintenance area in these companies, therefore that information was collected and categorized according to different subjects of interest, and it was developed a database which helped to establish the type of industrial maintenance applied in companies under study and thus contribute to the improvement of the industrial maintenance process.