Development of a multi-criteria hierarchical framework for maintenance performance measureme D R - 114

• Main Author: Aditya Parida
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Indian; Luleå
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.628.1146; http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2006/37/LTU-DT-0637-SE.pdf

iACKNOWLEDGEMENTS After 30 years of professional career as an Army maintenance engineer, teacher and trainer, when I arrived in Luleå, in late 2002, I had a unique experience of leading a student’s family life, where, I, my wife, my daughter, and my son, all are students. Even today, my self and my son are PhD students at the same time in the University! I started enjoying the student life again, as I never stopped learning in my life. Coming to the topic of Performance Measurement, as a young workshop officer of the Indian Army Workshops, in early 1970s, I used to keep track of the performance measures like “availability state ” and calculate the “Non-Availability Index ” etc of the Vehicles and equipments for the Army Units and Formations. There were no computers and till I mastered these calculations, I used to struggle with the figures manually. Up in the ladder of chain of Commands, I had the opportunity to understand of the linkage and impact of these measures with the operational strategy. During post-Army career, while teaching Production, Maintenance and Operation Management, I used to discuss performance measures and performance measurement in the class.