ABSTRACT

To be able to answer the main food industry request, regarding product safety and equipment reliability, a literature search is necessary to identify the key maintenance engineering techniques to be selected to develop the maintenance design and implementation process. The scope of this chapter is to present a short highlight of some of the product safety techniques, equipment reliability principles, and maintenance engineering techniques chosen to support the maintenance design and implementation process. The questions to answer while different techniques are examined are as follows:

• Why is a literature review necessary to define a maintenance design and implementation process?