a. The transition from the oral communication to the written communication. The transition from the oral communication to the written communication, considering the fact that the process of oral instructions’
transmitting is frequently met in the maintenance activity, constitutes an especially delicate mutation. The existence of
some written procedures related to the industrial equipments’ exploit and maintenance constitutes a fundamental
requirement in warranting the production’s quality. These procedures related to the equipments’ maintenance must allow: knowing the coverage of the activity of maintenance; the tasks and responsibilities of each employee covered in the activity of maintenance; the detailing of all maintenance works that are about to be performed.
b. The transition from the improvisation to the scientific rigor No matter which is the chosen maintenance
policy, respectively:
- the policy of increasing the equipments’reliability (their modifications for eliminating the “blind spots”);
- the preventive policy (the anticipating of the equipments’ malfunctions through a rigorous surveillance);
- the anti-malfunctioning policy, that aims to all the malfunctions’ elimination through the detailed analysis of each malfunction or abnormal functionality).
- the competence and the technical value of the people that execute the maintenance works is crucial, and quality warranty presupposes the execution of all the corrective or preventive interventions with the greatest scientific rigor.
c. The transition from intuition to professionalism With a properly trained maintenance staff,
with a great technical competence, talented, the maintenance compartment can execute efficient interventions.
2 The activity of maintenance’s evolution and objectives. In the current stage, the evolutions that are
necessary in approaching the activity of maintenance inside the industrial companies are determined by three groups of factors, which are [2]:
a. Technological factors . Worldwide, electronic and informatics spreadin the workshops and the production
departments: the machines are endowed with numerical command, the industrial robots extended, the flexible fabrication workshops are in full development, everything is being automatic. The electronic circuits are reliable because of the progresses in the components’ technology; the power organs, the mechanical and hydraulic tools, the
electromechanical subassemblies are more and more reliable and less and less maintenance consuming. Instead, the activity of maintenance can appeal to new techniques of detecting the flaws (the vibration analysis, the sonic analysis etc.) which prove to be extremely efficient pointing to the blind spots and preventing the failures. Nowadays, there is a new entry in the equipments’ surveillance trend (and, in the same time, the tele-surveillance trend): the conditioned maintenance, in which: