The Hidden Cost of “Zero Maintenance” Every maintenance professional has seen it before: a finance-driven crusade to “cut the fat.” Preventive maintenance gets deferred, spare parts budgets shrink, and predictive monitoring programs are shelved. For a brief moment, the financials look brilliant. But beneath the surface, reliability decays, equipment idles, and productivity collapses. The cartoon […] The post Maintenance Cost Reduction Strategies That Don’t Kill Reliability or Outp...
