Towards a maintenance 4.0. Chance versus need

Sustainability, resilience, recovering, adjustment, reuse, are expressions of urgencyemergencies. Interoperability, IoT, Big Data, Cloud, Augmented Reality, some terms of a new lexicon. They all introduce assumed discoveries and innovated approaches. They support and reaffirm the necessity of a proactive acting in a new dimension. Maintenance 4.0. A mix of automation, connection, information and planning, whose operational routine goes transforming itself thanks to the Lean Thinking and the Digital Transformation. However, computer technology is only the motor not the pilot of the new way of working. The revolution involves the tools but it can take place only through coherent processes: the constant maintenance, the taking care of. Opportunity versus necessity