Maintenance & Society

Maintenance is not a cost. It is a strategic choice.

In an era marked by instability, ecological transition and increasing pressure on margins, maintenance is still too often regarded as a technical function to be contained. This book reverses that perspective, showing how maintenance is a decisive lever for operational continuity, business competitiveness and the sustainability of society as a whole.

Maintenance and Society is neither an operational manual nor an academic treatise. It is a book of vision, written by someone who has lived through decades of industrial transformation. Drawing on field experience, economic reflection and systems thinking, it guides the reader through a cultural shift even before a technological one. From corrective maintenance to intelligent maintenance, from passive prevention to active care of assets, the book explores how maintenance is evolving into a strategic discipline.

Addressed to executives, managers, public decision-makers and industry professionals, the book explains why:

• maintenance directly affects costs, risks and asset value;

• sustainability is impossible without a culture of care;

• technological innovation only makes sense when guided by human responsibility;

• maintenance is one of the invisible pillars of economic and social resilience.

A book for those who are not looking for quick fixes, but for tools of understanding.
Because what a society is able to maintain says a great deal about who it is-and about who it will become.

Maurizio Cattaneo, mechanical engineer, has been working in industrial maintenance for over forty-five years. He has published seven books on the subject and has been one of the key contributors to the development of maintenance culture in Italy.