Definition of Maintenance
Torbjörn Idhammar, CEO & President, IDCON INC
Transcribed from the video “Definition of Maintenance”
The way we see maintenance being done, meaning maintenance work, you have preventive maintenance which is done is to prevent a failure or to detect a failure early. We have the prevent part and the inspection part. Continuous improvement, you may have some those, those are the things to be done from redesigns. If you redesign a piece of equipment. I can see you doing that in two cases…one is if you have a root cause and you see whatever you have a problem on you have a piece of equipment that is not working right…you may have to redesign it.
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