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The Systems View of Equipment Management
INTRODUCTION
As equipment management progresses further away from the maintenance era, maintenance has developed a negative connotation for many people. Without changing the general maintenance approaches, management reinitiates the focus by repackaging the maintenance practices into improvement programs and pick catchy names such as DEEP (downtime elimination and education program) and EQUIP (equipment quality unified improvement program) [4]. However, it is best to develop a new approach that meets the needs of the new environment.
Since the development of the general systems theory by Von Bertalanffy, many studies have been conducted to understand systems. Applying ...
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