A engenharia de manutenção e confiabilidade - um estudo de caso real

Abstract

The term maintenance is a word derived from the Latin manus tenere, which means to keep what you have. It has been present in the history of mankind for a long time, since the human being started using production instruments. With the Industrial Revolution, at the end of the 18th century, the production capacity of consumer goods increased exponentially. In this context, the present study aims to present the main concepts existing in the literature and in scientific articles already published, which talk about the evolution of maintenance and the good practices for the strategic management of the assets of a company. From that, a case study of a maintenance in a productive module of the BAT Brazil industrial plant was proposed. In this study, all the main maintenance indicators described throughout the development of the work were addressed, aiming at evidencing and verifying the effectiveness of these indexes with regard to the direction of large organizations, with a focus on the search for continuous improvement of processes, the maximization of production and the reduction of loss of profit.