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    Maintenance Management Framework Development for Competitiveness of Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study on Asku PLC
    (2018-06) Eyerusalem, Mekasha; Kassu, Jilcha (PhD)
    In the 20 th century maintenance was taken as necessary evil in manufacturing industries. Lately maintenance is taken as a strategic factor in a company because it is directly related with reliability, availability and product quality. This has a lot to do with the competitiveness of the company in the market. Even though there are a lot of studies on developed countries in maintenance engineering and management, studies that have been conducted in Africa are limited. Similarly, in Ethiopia maintenance concept is in an infant stage and the same is true in the food and beverage industries. In this research both theoretical and empirical studies have been performed to identify gaps on the subject matter. This has been done by studying existing maintenance frameworks on literature and studying existing company practices. As a result, the major gaps identified are that only a few number of frameworks exist and among those frameworks there is no framework developed for food and beverage industry; neither work flow system is incorporated in the frameworks nor CMMS is integrated in all the data. An eight-block maintenance management conceptual framework has been developed for the case company in this study. The new conceptual framework addresses both theoretical and empirical gaps that are identified in this study. Validation has been conducted by presenting the study to the technical and managerial staff to obtain their expert opinion and it has been found to be fitting. The framework can be benchmarked in other bottling industries in Ethiopia. The study can also be used as an input for new researches in this area.