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Manufacturing industries use automation to do more with fewer workers. But what about maintenance departments and automation? Today's most common maintenance tools — computerized maintenance management systems — help improve reliability-centered maintenance operations, scheduling, purchasing, and costs, but is there a potentially more important benefit we're not leveraging? These systems have the data, and with numbers from production, perhaps there's an opportunity to change perceptions at the executive level? Has anyone tried this approach?
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