A single bad maintenance practice can defeat the collective good
from otherwise following best practices. Here are two more bad
practices to be aware of:  Bad Practice #4 — Focusing Almost
Entirely on Production  Many maintenance departments have been
scaled back and are resourced thinly in terms of talent, test
equipment, and training. Since production losses are great
attention-getting incidents, resources tend to get allocated to
production equipment and not to the infrastructure upon which
they rely. Then people are surprised when the plant suddenly
goes dark. Make sure every plant asset gets its recommended
maintenance.  Bad Practice #5 — Skipping Scheduled Maintenance
After a week of putting out fires to keep production running,
preventive maintenance orders have piled up. If you could wave
your magic wand and make a few disappear, you'd be caught up
again. One target of this "time saver" is the breaker that isn't
nuisance tripping. Nobody asks if it even can trip, until after
the arc blast.  The recom