• DOI:10.1002/qre.1296
• Corpus ID: 6806079

The Graphical Analysis for Maintenance Management Method: A Quantitative Graphical Analysis to Support Maintenance Management Decision Making

@article{Martnez2013TheGA,
  title={The Graphical Analysis for Maintenance Management Method: A Quantitative Graphical Analysis to Support Maintenance Management Decision Making},
  author={Luis Barber{\'a} Mart{\'i}nez and Adolfo Crespo M{\'a}rquez and Pablo Viveros and Adolfo Arata Andreani},
  journal={Quality and Reliability Engineering International},
  year={2013},
  volume={29}
}

• Luis Barberá Martínez, A. C. Márquez, +1 author Adolfo Arata Andreani
• Published 1 February 2013
• Environmental Science
• Quality and Reliability Engineering International

This article proposes a logical support tool for maintenance management decision making. This tool is called the Graphical Analysis for Maintenance Management (GAMM), a method to visualize and analyze equipment dependability data in a graphical form. The method helps for a quick and clear analysis and interpretation of equipment maintenance (corrective and preventive) and operational stoppages. Then, opportunities can be identified to improve both operations and maintenance management (short–medium term) and potential investments (medium–long term). The method allows an easy visualization of parameters, such as the number of corrective actions between preventive maintenance, the accumulation of failures in short periods of time, and the duration of maintenance activities and sequence of stops of short duration. In addition, this tool allows identifying, a priori, anomalous behavior of equipment, whether derived from its own function, maintenance activities, misuse, or even equipment designs errors.