THE STATUS-QUO AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE ENTERPRISES MAINTENANCE AUDIT ASSESSMENT

Other than selecting maintenance perfermation index and certain bench mark to lead enterprises making progress in Europe, Maintenance management level of equipment in China is assessed by the audit system establishing. The first edition of Total Normalized Productive Maintenance Manage­ment Systems-Requirements was released in 2005, named TnPM Five-Rank & Six-Dimension Audit System. The equipment management and maintenance level of Chinese enterprises were audited systematically from that time on. The Audit System divides the equipment management and maintenance level into 6 dimensions, which include about 100 items. There are more than 800 auditing points and the total score are 1000-points as well. Five ranks differ maintenance level of enterprises from confusion to excellence. The final score will present the level of the enterprise in equipment maintenance management. From 2006 to 2011, enterprises from different industries like oil and chemical, chemical fertilizer, manufacture, subway, tobacco, power plant and mine apply for TnPM maintenance Audit actively. Some of the headquarters would like to know the equipment maintenance management condition of their branches through this audit system. The assessment of the equipment maintenance manage­ment condition as well as the management problems identifying has been done through the prob­lems distinguishing and checking. The suggestions which are proposed after the audit assessment will help enterprises to be world-class- manufacture.