Industrial Maintenance Engineering and Knowledge Management. Improvement in Business Efficiency

[EN] This article demonstrates the strategic level involving management of knowledge in industrial maintenance engineering for businesses with physical assets. The peculiarities that occur normally in this type of basic activity of the company, knowledge of operators and technicians working in the a...

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Author: Cárcel-Carrasco, Javier|||0000-0003-2776-533X
Format: article
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/67268
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/67268
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Energy efficiency
Industrial maintenance
Management of knowledge
Food industry
Eficiencia energética
Mantenimiento industrial
Gestión del conocimiento
Industria agroalimentaria
CONSTRUCCIONES ARQUITECTONICAS
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Summary:[EN] This article demonstrates the strategic level involving management of knowledge in industrial maintenance engineering for businesses with physical assets. The peculiarities that occur normally in this type of basic activity of the company, knowledge of operators and technicians working in the areas of maintenance is strongly based on your experience (strong tacit component), difficult to measure and articulate, however, on numerous occasions, this break of information-knowledge, can signify a high cost for the companies taken as something to deal with, due to the increase of downtimes of production and services, loss of efficiency or time of coupling of new personnel to these areas. This article shows a review of two books of research dealing with this topic, published after a field investigation applied to real industrial companies that make the consequences of having knowledge on islands, as well as measures improvements when there is an adequate knowledge management.