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The future of Maintenance – Part 3-Maintenance follows the Industry

Historically maintenance evolves as industry evolves. With every Industrial Revolution, Maintenance tools and strategies grow to provide the needed service for this industrial era. Now what shall we do with the Augmented reality and other technologies Industry 4.0 introduce in the production environment??!

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The future of Maintenance – Part 2 – How to see it?

In maintenance we practice visualization often when planning. We draw a whole process and draft a huge set of preparations out of our expectation for the end result. To draw the maintenance future we need to draw what we dream about the end result then we plan the Agile steps to reach there. Let’s follow on.

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The future of Maintenance -Part1 – Where are we now?

These are propping questions that will sprout many possibilities and hidden gems or problems that we would never known about if we didn’t have a hope followed by an intention to make this target come true in the nearby future

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The 8 Steps to create an Agile Maintenance – Part 9

Finally we explain how and why we need to reach an Agile Maintenance Process and an Agile Maintenance Team which has an Agile Mentality through the 8 steps needed to reach there.

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Self-Reform is a key to Agility – Part 8

Self-Reform leads to improved effectiveness in our maintenance tasks including improved communication, responsiveness & flexibility and better response to sudden requests while maintaining excellence in every part of the maintenance task. This leads to an Agile Maintenance Process and Team.

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Maintenance Excellence & Reliability enhance Agility – Part 7

A maintenance process that encompasses technical excellence in all of its elements and is reliable will be responsive, flexible and adding a value to its customers and stakeholders. That’s an Agile process.

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Simplicity, LEAN, RCM all lead to Agile Maintenance – Part 6

Simplicity of any process leads to agility of this same process. Eliminating or rejecting tasks that are not adding value to the maintenance process would free the precious time and effort of the maintenance team. Hence increasing its simplicity score. How?

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The trust that builds an Agile Maintenance Team – Part 5-2

A trust-based workplace can solve or at least improve the workplace conditions. However to reach this condition we need to provide the team with what it needs and encourage face-to face respectful communications. This way we can reach to a maintenance team that can make an Agile Maintenance process a reality.

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A Motivated Team makes Agile Maintenance a Reality – Part 5-1

To create and sustain an Agile maintenance we need to build the maintenance process around motivated maintenance teams and individuals. Why? and How? That’s what we had deeply discussed in this article

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Frequent communication with stakeholders leads to Agility – Part 4

For maintenance process to be Agile from the perspective of its stakeholders we need to understand stakeholders needs

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