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Manufacturing Principle 4:
Preventive/Predictive Maintenance
Manufacturing Principle 4: Preventive/predictive maintenance systems
will be routinely used to plan/schedule equipment and facility mainte-
nance. An undependable plant delivers poor customer service and disap-
points shareholders.
is is the last of the 12 manufacturing principles that I group under
the category of infrastructure because good maintenance (i.e., reliable
equipment) is so foundational. Plants that run machines to failure will be
stuck in Stage 1 hell for eternity! I have never understood the mentality
of maintenance managers who tolerated (and in some cases even led ...