**2.6 Strategies and framework**

Overall, maintenance affects, all aspects of business efficacy, safety, environmental impact, energy efficiency, product quality, customer service, plant availability and cost. Many times scheduled maintenance activity is seldom integrated with the production [10] which leads to unplanned production losses due to planning of scheduled and preventive maintenance activities.

Therefore, the selection of the right maintenance framework plays a significant role in preserving the functions of the equipment and supporting mining organization value drivers:


In order to achieve these benefits, efficient combination of preventive (Type II) and predictive maintenance (Type V) with production schedule is required to reduce the overall maintenance execution time and maximize production.
