Failure: A Source of Progress in Maintenance and Design

Abstract This approach, allows using the failure as a source of progress in maintenance and design to detect the most critical components in equipment, to determine the priority order maintenance actions to lead and direct the exploitation procedure towards the most penalizing links in this equipment, even define the necessary changes and recommendations for future improvement. Thus, appreciate the pathological behaviour of the material and increase its availability, even increase its lifespan and improve its future design. In this context and in the light of these points, the failures are important in managing the maintenance function. Indeed, it has become important to understand the phenomena of failure and degradation of equipments in order to establish an appropriate maintenance policy for the rational use of mechanical components and move to the practice of proactive maintenance [1] , do maintenance at the design [2] . The objective of this approach is to open a discussion on the problems dysfunctional management and its impact on technological progress in industry, to deduct the priorities and actions needed to carry out a maintenance program, namely: - identify and target machines, even the elements that penalize more the availability of equipment and frequencies; - Identify corrective maintenance actions to be undertaken in order of importance and emergency; - Optimize the technical and human resources; - Automate key operations in store management. - Identify improvement actions and do maintenance when designing; And finally, engage in a process of continuous improvement.