(Solved): 1. What is the role of people, especially empowered employees, in an effective maintenance strategy ...

1. What is the role of people, especially empowered employees, in an effective maintenance strategy? 2. "High reliability can be achieved in a product without having high reliability in the component parts. In fact, any reliability target, no matter how high, can be achieved with only mediocre parts, so long as enough of them are present." Discuss; an example may help. 3. Great Southern Consultants Group's computer system has been down several times over the past few months, as shown below. Number of breakdowns Monthly frequency 5 20 23 2 Each time the system is down, the firm loses an average of $400 in time and service expenses. They are considering signing a contract for preventive maintenance. With preventive maintenance, the system would be down on average only 0.5 per month. The monthly cost of preventive maintenance would be $200 a month. Which is cheaper, breakdown or preventive maintenance?