Evolución del mantenimiento industrial: desde una visión reduccionista y mecanicista a una gestión moderna y coopetitiva

Abstract

This article represents a documentary analysis of the evolution of industrial maintenance in contemporary times, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, through the various forms of action and thought. For this purpose, a review of the literature on the subject was made, by authors such as Tavares (2010), Sao (1994), Cárcel (2015) and Meres (2022), who allow the description in the evolution of the subject. As final reflections it has to be that the maintenance begins in the modern history as a limited, parceled and isolated function that was limited to the correction or repair of failures when they occurred and had to stop the machines to be attended; was not given a preponderant importance to this area in industries. However, its evolutionary step for the different epochs of the twentieth and twenty-first century, have conferred it a vital transcendence at present, where technological and computer maintenance predominates, prevailing prediction; In other words, the failures are foreseen with sophisticated tools that even the installations and machines themselves have in their composition. With modern management and coopetitive trends that point to the development of Industry 4.0.