Manufacturing Digital Magazine May 2025 | Page 135

INDUSTRY 4.0
A steam boiler at the Nagoya Works
Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya Works, Japan
Q. WHAT’ S THE WAY FORWARD?

» Maintaining a production plant requires significant investment in trained personnel and an extensive spare parts inventory. At a time when business costs are rising, leveraging the expertise of the supply chain to develop and adopt a life cycle management strategy can help mitigate these pressures.

This strategy will help increase the efficiency of a maintenance team by offering extra added value services outside the scope of what they have the capacity to deliver.
By doing so, production plant decision makers can better navigate and adapt to today’ s maintenance challenges.
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