KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY

INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE LEARNING

MSc. PROJECT MANAGEMENT

THEOPHILUS ATO FLETCHER

STUDENT NUMBER:20593445

INDEX NUMBER: PG5336218

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................3
Maintenance .......................................................................................................4
Culture .............................................................................................................4
Maintenance Culture ..............................................................................................5
PROBLEM STATEMENT .......................................................................................6
RESEARCH QUESTION ........................................................................................7
AIM OF RESEARCH ............................................................................................7
OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH..................................................................................8
JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY .............................................................................8
SCOPE OF RESEARCH .........................................................................................9
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ..............................................................................9
SCOPE OF RESEARCH ...........................................................................................9
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY............................................................................... 10
STRUCTURE OF REPORT.................................................................................... 10

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MAINTENANCE CULTURE IN THE PLASTIC MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY.

A CASE OF CENTURY INDUSTRY, ACCRA.

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 INTRODUCTION

Currently, maintenance is critical to organizations today. Maintenance culture is essential not

exclusively to keep up capacity of the machinery, equipment’s, production line building,

consequently to limit upkeep costs and to guarantee a protected situation to building occupant and

machine administrators or operators (Mohammed et al., 2013).

The advancement of plastic product or item in our nation is in quick development and supplanting

metal, wood and pottery items because its brilliant properties and the low costs associated with the

change (Pérez, 2018). The lazy demeanor of maintenance culture has adversely influenced the

plastic assembling improvement businesses in Ghana (Abiodun et al., 2016).

Maintenance culture is a frame of mind which is unfortunately ailing in the plastic manufacturing

production line, likewise poor maintenance culture has turned into a broadly perceived issue in

Ghana.

Maintenance culture is the propensity for normally and reliably keeping the processing plants,

machines, equipment’s, in great and working condition.

Culture of maintenance is the qualities, perspective, conduct, discernment and the hidden

suppositions of any individual or gathering or society that considers support as an issue that is

significant and rehearses it in their life.

The plastics product manufacturing industries, must develop, it is the basic that a well maintenance

standard of its current facilities and machinery, should have priority.

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 Maintenance

English Standards Institute considered maintenance as the blend of specialized and regulatory

moves made to save or secure a structure, machinery or equipment’s to work appropriate (Abiodun

et al., 2016). Propelled Learner's Dictionary (2009) characterizes maintenance as the activity or

procedure of saving an item, movement and so forth (Abiodun et al., 2016). To prevent a device or

component from falling or to maintain proper functionality, perform an action that affects the device

depending on the capabilities of the device. Poor maintenance of equipment can eliminate more

common equipment damage, use of production schedules and delays. Incorrectly functioning or

incomplete equipment can increase the speed of rejection. Inadequately kept up gear may on the

other hand lead to increasingly visit disappointment of the hardware, low usage rate and postponing

of generation plan. Equipment that is breaking down or misaligned may cause a higher piece rate.

Culture

There is no single acknowledged meaning of culture since it is troublesome term to characterize

(Abiodun et al., 2016). Culture is a set of beliefs and basic values, life directions, polices,

procedures, and agreements about actions shared by people that influence the behavior of each

member and are interpreted in the meaning of the behavior of other members. Culture is a fluffy

arrangement of fundamental presumptions and qualities, introductions to life, approaches, methods

and conduct shows that are shared by a gathering of individuals, and that impact (however don't

decide) every part's conduct and one's elucidations of the 'signifying' of other individuals' conduct.

Along these lines, culture consists of (in general action of) frames of mind, values,

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fundamental supposition, expressions, traditions, conviction, and encapsulations that shape the

conduct of people in a given society.

In straightforward term, individuals' way of life is the summation of their total lifestyle. Culture is

correspondence, correspondence is culture.

Maintenance Culture

Maintenance culture is the qualities, perspective, conduct, discernment and the fundamental

suspicions of any individual or gathering or society that considers maintenance as an issue that is

significant and practices it in their life. At the point when an individual or gathering has

maintenance culture, they would have the frame of mind to keep up, safeguard and secure the

general equipment’s and machinery (Olalekan and Adejuyigbe, 2012). It is normally determined

or learns through an individual making upkeep a characteristic every day practice that can be

pursued and copied by other.

This infers maintenance culture brings to expose the appropriation of the frame of mind of

guaranteeing standard overhauling, fixes and support of working resources or built up framework

in order to ensure their ceaseless value. In Ghana, the idea appears to be extremely new.

Manufacturing firms in Ghana like Century industries organization, Top industries, Decor plastic,

and Inter plastic have put such a great amount in equipment’s and machines yet have not given

sufficient thoughtfulness regarding its maintenance culture thus exceptionally low outcomes are

acknowledged in the utilization of benefits. The circumstance in these firms can be credited to

ineffectively prepared support divisions, deficient subsidizing for activity and maintenance,

absence of extra parts, exchange of plants without enough labor necessities on ground, inadequate

observing and absence of preventive and remedial support procedures.

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT

It is well-known that in the plastics product industry in Ghana there is no maintenance culture, so the

manufacturer is not guided by recommendations or service strategies. It is trusted that this demeanor

has prompted the successive substitutions of machines and equipment’s which has cost the

organizations beyond a reasonable doubt in fiscal terms and has hindered their creation development.

This research looks to give knowledge into maintenance engineering in manufacturing firms in

Ghana. It is the scientist's conviction that this work would help convey to the fore the difficulties and

prospects of maintenance culture in the plastic product assembling in century industries the north

business territory of Accra. The problems happen on account of low nature of maintenance work,

absence of morals in maintenance viability, obliviousness to comprehend upkeep work, unpracticed

and untalented laborers, absence of supervision from pioneers, delays in fixing and supplanting

resource, disappointment of the administration to give clear approaches and gauges to direct the

maintenance staffs, deficient data of support, and absence of pledge to maintenance plan. Along these

lines, to explain the issues emerges, the maintenance culture should be executed by the plastic

assembling association to expand the nature of upkeep work. Maintenance culture is interesting for

every organization, consequently the organization should be advanced to meet the changing in the

market requests and patterns. The maintenance culture ought to be actualized in the organization to

change the mentalities and frames of mind of upkeep group. The component of support culture is

typically disregarded by a large portion of the organization in plastics business.

This is on the grounds that; they don't know about the necessities of support culture to be executed

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inside the upkeep exercises. There is no methodology to do maintenance tasks that make it

conceivable to set up security and well-being measures at work and ecological assurance (Pérez,

2018). The support arrangement has a general concentration and does not mirror its central goal in

every one of the procedures.

The general cost control framework considers the support inside other cost focuses and does not

investigate the monetary status of the upkeep territories. There are no gauges that control,

methodologically, crafted by upkeep the executives. Poor culture at work with the methodology and

norms accessible. Quality experts don't control support work. There is no computer-assisted

maintenance support framework, absence of assets, poor specialized state of the machinery. Poor

preparing and expert preparing framework as they don't contain explicit activities relying upon the

necessities of the administration and execution of upkeep (Pérez, 2018).

The research needs to answer the following questions:

 What is sustainable maintenance management in the plastics industry?

 What is the present culture of maintenance and safety procedures in the plastics industry?

 Are plastics factory managers skilled in maintenance management?

RESEARCH QUESTION

What extent to which maintenance culture impacts on the efficiency of plastic manufacturing

industry.

AIM OF RESEARCH
The aim of this study is to create a stronger knowledge of the maintenance culture and the
effective performance of plastic sector maintenance management.

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 OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH
The objectives of this study are:

 To determine the relationship between maintenance culture and the impact of plastic sector

non-maintenance.

 To ensure the safety of personnel using the machinery.

 To minimize complete maintenance costs including the repair costs, preventive

maintenance costs and inventory carrying costs, due to spare part inventory.

 To minimize accidents through periodic inspection and repair of safety devices.

 To train personnel in specific maintenance abilities.

JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

This study will add to information and hypothesis of maintenance culture of machines, equipment’s

and the industrial facility. It will likewise research factors that adversely influence maintenance of

infusion moldings machines answers for the issues. This study will likewise help specialists of

plastic product business in Ghana to know the present condition of their machines and risks or

consequences of awful routine with regards to maintenance strategies. This study also reflects the

importance of maintaining health and safety in terms of good maintenance practices for machinery

and equipment’s.

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 SCOPE OF RESEARCH

Research on the introduction of a maintenance culture at the plastic product in the century industries

north area, suggests a relationship between the Ghana plastic product industry in order to improve

maintenance practices and explore new ways, building a culture of increased care aimed at

improving health, safety and quality of work.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of this research can be summarized as follows:

 It is thought that at the completion of the study, the findings will be of benefit to the plastic

industries of Ghana.

 It will assist to understand the advantage of performing maintenance culture and

management.

 The study will also be of excellent advantage to scientists who intend to embark on studies

on comparable subjects as it will serve as a guide.

 The maintenance strategy proposed in this study will show how a plastic industry can rely

on its staff to repair rather than rely on external maintenance companies.

SCOPE OF RESEARCH

Research on the introduction of a maintenance culture at the plastic product in the century industries

north area, suggests a relationship between the Ghana plastic product industry in order to improve

maintenance practices and explore new ways, building a culture of increased care aimed at

improving health, safety and quality of work.

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Review inquire about plan was utilized in this investigation. The investigation includes the

assurance of the degree of the connection between three factors to be specific, maintenance culture,

company productivity and health and safety practices.

The main sources of survey data include course books, the internet and diaries of primary and

secondary sources. Basic data collected when using questionnaire.

STRUCTURE OF REPORT

The subtleties of how the different chapters will follow. Chapter 2 reviews the literature maintenance,

the types available, normal and current practices. Chapter 3 looks at the poll configuration received

in attempted the exploration work. Chapter 4 provides details regarding the result of the outcomes.

Chapter 5 discusses the outcomes acquired. The work shows its suggestions and last ends in chapter

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