Customers demand:

• excellent quality
  
  
• reliable delivery
  
  
• competitive pricing
  
  

To achieve this, equipment and maintenance have changed. Machines must be available when you want them, and be working efficiently and safely.

Automation has replaced people. Investment requires a payback. There is more dependence on even more complicated machines.

Often in the early days of industrialisation, equipment was simple, rugged, and labour intensive. Even today there is equipment used in industry which falls into this category.

History of Maintenance

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