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Article: Shadowing tradespeople: Inefficiency in maintenance fieldwork
| Title | Shadowing tradespeople: Inefficiency in maintenance fieldwork |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Keywords | Efficiency evaluation Facilities maintenance Informational support Maintenance activity |
| Issue Date | 2009 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon |
| Citation | Automation in Construction, 2009, v. 18 n. 5, p. 536-546 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This research investigates current practices in Operations and Maintenance (O&M), from the initial phase of assigning maintenance requests through the completion of the requests, in order to identify types of inefficiency and their causes. Fifty-eight real maintenance cases have been shadowed; and maintenance activities performed by the tradespeople have been recorded with time data corresponding to each activity. O&M inefficiencies categorized into two groups, Structural and Individual, are demonstrated through specific cases. A statistical analysis is used to show how O&M tasks, activities, and categories impact overall O&M performance. The results show that tradespeople vastly underutilize maintenance data in the field due to problems with data accessibility and reliability. Based on the shadowing activity results, we observed 12+% potential for improvement in maintenance time efficiency by providing proper information support. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199856 |
| ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 9.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.626 |
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Lee, SH | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Akin, O | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-22T03:11:45Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2014-07-22T03:11:45Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Automation in Construction, 2009, v. 18 n. 5, p. 536-546 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0926-5805 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/199856 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This research investigates current practices in Operations and Maintenance (O&M), from the initial phase of assigning maintenance requests through the completion of the requests, in order to identify types of inefficiency and their causes. Fifty-eight real maintenance cases have been shadowed; and maintenance activities performed by the tradespeople have been recorded with time data corresponding to each activity. O&M inefficiencies categorized into two groups, Structural and Individual, are demonstrated through specific cases. A statistical analysis is used to show how O&M tasks, activities, and categories impact overall O&M performance. The results show that tradespeople vastly underutilize maintenance data in the field due to problems with data accessibility and reliability. Based on the shadowing activity results, we observed 12+% potential for improvement in maintenance time efficiency by providing proper information support. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Automation in Construction | - |
| dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Automation in Construction. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Automation in Construction, [VOL 18, ISSUE 5, 2009] DOI 10.1016/j.autcon.2008.11.002 | - |
| dc.subject | Efficiency evaluation | - |
| dc.subject | Facilities maintenance | - |
| dc.subject | Informational support | - |
| dc.subject | Maintenance activity | - |
| dc.title | Shadowing tradespeople: Inefficiency in maintenance fieldwork | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Lee, SH: shlee1@hku.hk | - |
| dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.autcon.2008.11.002 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-67349213600 | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 18 | - |
| dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
| dc.identifier.spage | 536 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | 546 | - |
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000267483700003 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 0926-5805 | - |