If you've been in the maintenance game for long, you've probably learned more about what to do than what not to do. For example, our previous five issues presented a series on simple ways to improve maintenance. The collective knowledge about good maintenance often gets expressed as "best practices." No maintenance operation deliberately follows "worst practices," but many inadvertently follow practices that are, at the very least, bad practices. We'll look at what some of these are, starting with one in this issue.
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