A Research for Computerized Maintenance Management System and Predictive Maintenance Investments in Turkish Industry

Abstract

The enterprises which are used in industries that capital-intensive investments take place such as aviation, maritime, manufacturing, and energy, become more complex and their total cost of ownership has risen gradually in parallel with the technological developments. To use these expensive technological instruments properly, organizations use systems that enable a much better maintenance efficiency like computerized maintenance management and predictive maintenance systems. Especially with Industry 4.0, predictive maintenance’s ability for data analytics on certain equipment has become a very popular topic in literature. However, this popularity has some missing essential points which are directly connected with system and cost efficiency theories. It is assessed that making investments for these systems without a holistic approach could cause a potential risk and could lead organizations to catastrophic financial losses. Turkey as a developing country with its organizations in a turbulent financial environment should be very sensitive about properly designed and implemented maintenance information systems investment projects which are directly connected to their total efficiency. This research aims at providing a descriptive overview of the maintenance information technology investments in Turkish companies and creating a path for future research. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.