Abstract

Equipment management capability is crucial to the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises. Past studies ignore its significance and have not assessed manufacturing performance from the perspective of capability maturity yet and still want evidence from empirical test. For addressing this research gap, we combine research methods of qualitative and quantitative to define equipment management capability for exploring and verifying the relationship between equipment management capability maturity and manufacturing performance. Results of this study from 136 valid questionnaires indicate that capabilities of strategy, personnel and IT infrastructure have direct positive effects on manufacturing performance. Among them, equipment management strategy takes organisational & process and IT infrastructure as mediating variables, which have indirect positive influence on manufacturing performance. Meanwhile, organisational & process takes IT infrastructure as mediating variable which has indirect positive influence on manufacturing performance. Our work opens the black box of equipment management capability system and provides theoretical guidance for improving manufacturing performance.

摘要

装备管理能力对制造企业转型升级至关重要。过去的研究忽略了它的重要性，还没有从能力成熟度的角度评估制造性能，仍然需要经验测试的证据。针对这一研究空白，我们结合定性和定量的研究方法来定义设备管理能力，以探索和验证设备管理能力成熟度与制造性能之间的关系。本研究从 136 份有效问卷中得出的结果表明，战略、人员和 IT 基础设施的能力对制造绩效有直接的积极影响。其中，设备管理策略以组织&流程和IT基础设施为中介变量，对制造性能有间接的积极影响。同时，组织和流程以 IT 基础设施为中介变量，对制造绩效有间接的积极影响。我们的工作打开了设备管理能力系统的黑匣子，为提高制造性能提供了理论指导。