Need For Effective Maintenance System The new emerged managerial and technical advances still could not make much of the impact........

The new emerged managerial and technical advances still could not make much of the impact on old maintenance working practices. The situation is becoming more serious with high global competition, complex and high speed machines. As the automation in manufacturing and process plants are increased by manifold, the traditional operator – machine contacts become lesser and consequently advance methods of machine status monitoring needs to be deployed. Mostly plant maintenance is still treated as non-core, stand alone cost center. The vast potential lies in using Good Maintenance Practices as strategic edge for enterprise apart for its operational and tactical advantages.