Value Driven Maintenance

Nobody will deny that maintenance is important. Without the right maintenance, tire output and safety of equipment will be seriously jeopardized. But too often the Technical Department continues to be managed as a cost item, with inevitable consequences. The main reason for this situation is that the maintenance manager is still not speaking the same language as the boardroom executive, i.e. the language of economic added value and stockholder value. This is why Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay developed the Value Driven Maintenance® method. It is a method that builds a bridge between traditional maintenance thinking and managing by economic added value. VDM shows where the added value of maintenance lies and how the maintenance organization can best be structured to materialize that value. For this purpose, VDM uses a quantitative control model and industry-specific benchmarks. VDM builds on established best practices like RCM, TPM and RBI. VDM does not replace these methods, but places them in the right context - the context of economic added value. Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay, the founders of Mainnovation, are among the trendsetters in the field of maintenance management. They worked on this book over a three-year period in close association with some leading maintenance organizations in the Benelux. Through the book, they hope to raise the maintenance profession to a higher level, one where maintenance enjoys recognition and the faith of corporate management.