Maintenance Planning & Control (0405434) -11 Fall 2020-2021 Assignment - 1 (Individual Submissions) (5 Marks) Maintaining or not Maintaining! Maintenance is the key factor to ensure reliability, safety, availability, and productivity of any device (or equipment or production line, etc.) regardless of its complexity. But what should be the frequency of maintenance activity? Does it make sense to do maintenance very often to ensure the reliability? What consequences would this approach have? How would this approach affect the profitability? Write a short article (750 - 1000 words) on this dilemma: Maintaining or not Maintaining". Your article should discuss and explain the concept of maintenance in general, then you need to specifically discuss the factors or causes according to the maintenance frequency. You can include some points such as the following within your answer. These points are given here as EXAMPLES, but you must add more points from your own understanding of this topic: Importance of maintenance planning and control What factors affect the decision-making on the maintenance frequency. Support your arguments by giving examples. Other points as well, provide your own input