Overall handling equipment efficiency and maintenance systems

The maintenance of handling equipment is an area with a huge potential for increasing availability and reliability and to reduce costs and losses. Several maintenance approaches and systems have been developed, such as reactive, proactive or aggressive systems, etc. However the validity of these systems could be question able if is used while collecting wrong data, e.g. using OEE index for handling equipment. Therefore it is necessary to establish a versatile methodology which can serve asa consistent tool for evaluating their efficiency and which provides us information about the state of handling equipment. This paper proposes a consistent tool for evaluating the efficiency of handling equipment and joins together maintenance approaches and systems. There is also shown a comparison of the most common maintenance approaches for handling equipment.