Since the beginning of process operations, maintenance has been the key to survival. Whenever we look into historical descriptions of early operations, there is a workshop not far from the processing site. And it is the nature of engineering to design in a way to sustain the devices which were engineered. The development of processing always finds its roots in the development of inventions from engineers all around the world. Companies, such as BMA and others on the machinery side, or Siemens on the electrical side, we're providing cutting-edge devices which found interest in process engineers who made them work for the sugar industry. But engineering is an iterative process, and maintenance became a major source of new ideas. But operations did not just want to replace equipment with something more unique; they were looking into keeping and improving. And here, the concept of predictive maintenance started long before anybody thought about digitalisation.
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