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To reach an appropriate maintenance of the sugar factories while being repaired is one of the elements that certifies the achievement of an effective operation of the productive equipment during the mill phase; it is for it that the selection of the appropriate suppliers for the benefit of the services of this type that decide to hire becomes an important factor for the enterprise. In work a procedure starting from the Critical Factors of Success of the activity of Maintenance (CFSM) is exposed, it allows to develop this selection of suppliers. It guarantees that the hired supplying enterprises are appropriate to the strategies and maintenance of the factory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper outlines a procedure based on the level of criticality of the productive equipment in sugar mills, a proposal defined by the selection of the main variables that characterize its environment, determines the maintenance strategy recommended, all focused to achieve a significant improvement in the management of maintaining them. The proposal stresses the insertion of innovative methods to assess some of the variables used and a group of meanings in the case of continuous production environments, being demonstrated the possibility to determine the most appropriate maintenance variant for each equipment in the sugar mill combining the classification of their failures and their criticality level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]