WE will cross the bridge when it comes. That’s a nice philosophy to have in life.
But not in a plant. Certainly not with machines.
Every machine comes with a suffix called maintenance attached to it.
That’s why the term called AMCs (Annual Maintenance Contracts) is a highlight of many a sales negotiation talk too.
And yet, maintenance is orphaned once the machine gets out of the crib.
The crying baby gets the milk. So is the approach we often take with maintenance too.
But, maintenance is not just strutting about with some nuts and bolts to be used when something screeches, or howls or makes a noise.
Its scope is broad and deep and that’s probably why we still don’t embrace the right approach to maintenance.
