1. The document discusses techniques for improving equipment planning and maintenance prevention activities. It aims to reduce life cycle costs by considering reliability, maintainability, and other factors during the design stage.
2. Key technical issues that must be addressed include shortening development times, improving manufacturability design for cost effectiveness, and developing more flexible production engineering approaches.
3. Maintenance prevention is an important part of project engineering that serves as the interface between equipment project design and maintenance engineering. Its goal is to design equipment for higher reliability and reduced maintenance costs over the life cycle.