THE NON-MAINTENANCE COST – INSTRUMENT OF EFFICIENT
             MANAGEMENT WITHIN INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE

                 CUCU IOAN, Associated Professor, cucuioan2002@yahoo.fr
                               University of Petroşani,
               CODRUŢA DURA, Associated Professor, codrutadura@yahoo.com
                               University of Petroşani,


        Abstract: The analysis and the assessment of maintenance costs for technological
equipment play a dominant role among maintenance management issues in industrial
enterprises. An original approach to this problem is based on the non-maintenance costs which
can be defined through the expenses caused by the non-maintenance of the functional
characteristics of industrial technological equipment. Practically, the equipment inefficiency
(non-maintenance) costs can be assessed by the difference between provisioned operation cost to
be obtained in an ideal situation (according to which the equipment dose not undergo any
breakdown) and the real situation of the results obtained in the same period. The assessment
model for non- maintenance costs proposed in the paper involves the covering of the following
stages: diagnosis, the definition of ideal situation, the evaluation of the results' accounts and the
calculation of the non-maintenance cost as such.

       Key words: maintenance cost, non – maintenance cost, cost calculation
       JEL code: L19