Abstract:
TVET institutions are expected to produce the bulk of Kenya’s middle
level manpower equipped with skills to drive the attainment of infrastructural
objectives
of
Kenya
Vision
2030.
However
inadequate
training
resources brought about by poor management practices continue
to impede efforts to equip Kenyan youth with employable technical
skills. A programme to re-equip the institutions has been effected but
it requires maintenance practices to be aligned with the new acquisitions
to ensure they are constantly available for training. A survey
was conducted through a questionnaire to engineering departments
to evaluate compliance with maintenance performance indicators
(PIs); a 5-point rating scale was used to score responses in the questionnaire
that
returned
a
combined
Maintenance
Management
System
Effectiveness
Index
of
0.517.
This
indicated
a need
for
improvement
of
maintenance
practices. The Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP)
method was applied which identified predictive maintenance policy as
the best one to apply.
