The Cult of Zero Breakdown: Why It’s Economically Flawed Introduction: The Cost of Chasing Perfection For decades, zero breakdown has been treated as the gold standard in industrial maintenance. It signals discipline, operational rigor, and reliability maturity. But in modern…
Autonomous Maintenance Doesn’t Reduce Breakdowns — It Exposes Bad Processes Autonomous maintenance has become a cornerstone concept in industrial reliability frameworks like Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Yet despite its widespread adoption, many plants don’t see the dramatic drop in breakdowns leaders…