| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to: establish the plant maintenance strategies used by large
manufacturing firms in Kenya; establish the challenges large manufacturing firms in
Kenya are facing in their effort to implement plant maintenance strategies and establish
whether the maintenance strategies in large manufacturing firms in Kenya conform to
world best maintenance strategies.
The targeted population was large manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya whose
estimated population is 80% of the total number of manufacturing firms registered with
Kenya Association of Manufacturers. Stratified random sampling procedure was
employed to select the respondents to represent the larger population. Primary data were
collected through questionnaires and data analysis was done using descriptive statistics.
The study found out that large manufacturing firms in Kenya use a combination of both
corrective and preventive maintenance strategies with corrective maintenance strategy as
the most prominent within the firms. Large manufacturing firms in Kenya face numerous
challenges in their effort to implement plant maintenance strategies. The challenges are
grouped as: culture based, people based, tools and equipment based, financial based,
systems and management based. Large manufacturing firms in Kenya plant maintenance
strategies are progressing positively towards world best strategies.
The research has come up with recommendations that management has to invest in time,
money and resources for a successful implementation of good maintenance strategies.
Further research is also recommended to establish the reasons behind dominance of
corrective maintenance strategies in manufacturing firms, the effect of plant maintenance
strategies on the productivity of the firms and to expand the current research to include
non manufacturing firms, buildings and other utilities. | en_US |
