Małgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek

The Role of Maintenance in Reducing the Negative Impact of a Business on the Environment

New concepts of business management (Lean Manufacturing, Green Manufacturing or Sustainable Manufacturing) resulted in modified perception of maintenance. It is no longer a cost centre but a strategic business partner that plays a vital role that helps the organisation to achieve its eco-efficiency goals. Maintenance services have no direct impact on power consumption and other utilities or the amount of generated waste resulting from the applied manufacturing technologies. However, they may actively contribute to the reduction of environmental aspects identified in the organisation and to the improvement of its eco-efficiency. The two areas, maintenance and environment, are inter-dependable, both in terms of results of actions and the effects. What factors are in the responsibility of the maintenance? On what production system components can the activities of maintenance service affect positively?

Sustainability: Orientation in Maintenance Management—Theoretical Background

New concepts and approaches to corporate management, such as Lean Manufacturing, new challenges connected with natural resources management (Green Manufacturing), and thinking in a sustainable way (Sustainable Manufacturing) resulted in developing new approach to maintenance management as well. Contemporary maintenance is not only a set of operations focused on dealing with breakdowns and failures and conservation of machines and devices. Nowadays, it is more like long term strategic planning which integrates all the phases of a product lifecycle, includes and anticipates changes in social, environmental and economic trends, benefits from innovative technologies. Thus, it is necessary to include sustainable development category into processes and activities realized in the area of enterprise’s technical infrastructure maintenance.

The Maintenance Management in the Macro-Ergonomics Context

The future factory empowers managers with new capabilities and enables the realization of sophisticated approaches based on the collaboration of devices, network services within the single enterprise and among enterprises. This is a key issue especially for the maintenance. Technical systems are no longer passive, but became active entities that can do self-monitoring, proactively inform third party services about their status or maintenance needs and therefore greatly enhance existing efforts for remote and autonomous maintenance. Influence of the Industry 4.0 approach on working mode is nowadays the issue widely discussed. Does it lead to the insensate production where there is no place for human factor?

Social dimension of sustainable development: safety and ergonomics in maintenance activities

The paper considered the issue of the impact of maintenance services for the safety and health of workers. This is undoubtedly an important issue as statistics show that in Europe 10 to 15% of fatal industrial accidents can be traced to maintenance operations. The role of these services in the modern enterprise is increasing, as companies increasingly depend on the proper functioning of its technical systems. In addition, the maintenance process involves not only technical services company employees, but also the employees of other functional areas and external agencies. All this makes, that maintenance in terms of security is a complex issue. Activities of maintenance services are generally associated only with phase of the operation of machinery. In the paper authors consider the effects of enlargement of operations maintenance services for all phases of the life of a technical object, including not only operation but also design, manufacturing and disposal phases. Such approach is able to provide more effective, proactive and preventive health and safety system.

Human Factor in Sustainable Manufacturing

This article describes sustainable manufacturing (a part of a sustainable development concept) and the role of human factor/ergonomics (HFE) in achieving it. This includes consideration of relevant human factor issues in advancing manufacturing operations and processes from the point of view of product life cycle phases.

Participatory Ergonomics as a Method of Quality Improvement in Maintenance

Modern enterprises are forced to constantly improve ways of management and to introduce changes. One of the changes is a alteration of organizational culture and acceptance of participation of employees in designing and implementing new solutions. Striving for general improvement of system efficiency involves joint design of technical and social systems to achieve the best fitness to goals and requirements of system and its parts possible. Not only technical objects, but also workers and workplaces (work environment) require keeping in good condition. Such approach to maintenance stresses human importance and workers place in systems they work in. It also stresses necessity for not engineers, but also quality and ergonomics experts as well as technical objects users to involve into maintenance actions and processes. The paper presents potential of participatory ergonomics to maintenance quality improvement use.

Sustainability: Orientation in Maintenance Management: Case Study

Sustainability is the new paradigm for manufacturing which requires the integration of the economic, environmental and social perspective. Being good at balancing environmental and societal costs with financial success will no longer be a choice but instead will be a must. Sustainable maintenance is a new challenge for enterprises. It is a process of continuous development and constant improvement of maintenance processes, increasing efficiency, safety of operations and maintenance of technical objects and installations, focused on employees. This chapter presents case study in glass processing company. It highlights the challenges of sustainable maintenance introduction within industrial enterprise

Environmental issues of the corporate social responsibility

Summary The article is dealing with the environmental corporate responsibility. Taking this research topic stems from a growing awareness of entrepreneurs in this area and is associated with the popularity of proving the social responsibility before a group of stakeholders. The article discussed past literature achievements relating to environmental management as one of the areas of corporate social responsibility. There were also presented current imperatives of this aspect, which became the subject of practical research to find effective ways of their compliance. Practical examples of solutions to grouped environmental requirements were described in the second part of the article. Streszczenie Artykuł podejmuje temat środowiskowej odpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstw. Podjęcie tego tematu badawczego wynika z coraz większej świadomości przedsiębiorców w tym obszarze i wiąże się z popularnością udowadniania odpowiedzialności społecznej przed grupą interesariuszy. W artykule omówiono dotychczasowe dokonania literaturowe odnoszące się do zarządzania środowiskowego jako jednego z obszarów społecznej odpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstw. Zaprezentowano również aktualne imperatywy tego aspektu, które stały się przedmiotem badań praktycznych w poszukiwaniu skutecznych form ich spełniania. W drugiej części artykułu przedstawiono przykłady praktyczne rozwiązań odnoszących się do pogrupowanych wymagań środowiskowych.

Integrating Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) into the Autonomous Maintenance Activities

In the manufacturing industry, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a very effective tool for improving product quality, productivity as well as safety of employees. In the paper a part of research on implementation of TPM in medium-sized industrial company is introduced. The goal of the paper was analysis of efficiency of promotion of safety and hygiene issues during Autonomous Maintenance pillar implementation.

Improvement of the Process of Information Management in Maintenance - A Case Study

Effective planning, coordination, and scheduling of the maintenance function can be, and for many years was, accomplished without computer support. However, in these days of high technology and rapid, economical data communication, job preparation is accomplished far more efficiently with the support of a sound maintenance management information system. Fast, flexible access to reliable, current, and comprehensive information is vital if planners and managers are to control the maintenance function on the basis of knowledge rather than intuition. The paper presents a maintenance information management system designed for the needs of the healthcare company. Due to its universality, the system can read information from different sources, appropriately process, interpret and deliver it to the right people in the most appropriate manner.