Ascribing new tasks to the maintenance compartment. The tasks transfer towards the production and the resort to cooperation mustn’t lead to the liquidation of the maintenance compartment inside the industrial units.
The maintenance’s tasks will focus in three main directions: - the maintenance activity’s execution by
the production staff (or for the start, mixed teams of production-maintenance), according to the established programs
and with the help of the defined measures. This involves not only a role of prediction, but also that of counseling and
assistance in difficult situations. - contracting other companies’ interventions and activities; - exploiting all the information referring to the functioning equipments’ behavior for improving the maintenance programs, for
consumptions’ optimization and the optimization of the replacements, for improving the equipments’ reliability, for
optimizing the maintenance methods, for renewing the equipments in due time. For carrying out these tasks, the
maintenance department should contain a staff, a not too numerous one, but one of a great professional competence, made of: “experts”: engineers and technicians with a polyvalent technical training, capable to supervise the activities made by the external partners and to provide special technical assistance to the production teams; “method agents”, charged with establishing and surveillance of the maintenance programs, making out the maintenance’s
specifications, information analysis from the equipments’ history, etc. Considering the things that were previously
presented, the industrial maintenance’s evolution is systematically presented in fig.2.