The Modern Approach to Industrial Maintenance Management

The maintenance activity isn’t a purpose in itself, it’s a necessity of which “the productionsuffers” and the financial agent “considers too expensive”. It often exists a conflict betweenthe production units and the maintenance department, not only for a short term, but, sometimes, for a long term, imposing a rigorous definition of each person’s responsibilities. Considering the mutations in the industrial equipments’ technical complexity and theaccidental failures’ catastrophic consequences from the economic and/or social point of view, it should be assigned a new dimension to the maintenance activity. One of the imperativesimposed to this action is represented by modern means of informing through themaintenance’s operational computerization