Although most agree that the maintenance of production equipment is seen as a strategic factor within the organization, the survey data show that corrective policies is
still predominate, attributed in many cases to the company's own strategy. It was observed a low level of training of the teams, reduced budget affecting the organization and
planning of activities, lack of time to implement activities and even outsourced due to lack of own staff or lack of training of the technical team. Another important fact about
this issue is that prevention programs are not adequate or sufficient to prevent or reduce the frequency of failures