The EUT maintenance model

Since the end of the sixties attention has been paid to the fundamentals of maintenance and to maintenance management in courses and in research at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The descriptive model, which is generally valid, was developed in order to illustrate the interrelations of partial and dispersed knowledge. Its usefulness is not limited to academic activities; it also serves as a tool to assess possibilities to improve maintenance in an enterprise. The structure of the model is explained in this article.