Advanced manufacturing systems have become one of the most important tools to support the competitiveness of industrial establishments, given what they achieve in adding new features to products that are not provided by traditional technology, such as increasing production flexibility; raising the level of quality, and reducing costs.

Maintenance planning systems are one of the most important modern trends to improve productivity, and the comprehensive maintenance program in factories aims to radically repair equipment and human resources to reduce losses and work to increase human efficiency and improve the overall effectiveness of equipment, eliminate malfunctions, and spread the concept of self-maintenance by the operator during daily work for all workers in companies and industrial institutions.

Given the great importance of the stages related to planning and implementing comprehensive maintenance programs in developing the Arab industrial sector, and based on the role played by the Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization as an Arab house of expertise in supporting sustainable development in Arab countries and working to raise the competitiveness of industrial products by developing the capabilities and skills of Arab human cadres, and in this context comes the preparation to hold this specialized workshop in the field of (modern scientific methods for maintaining equipment and machines “electrical / electronic / hydraulic / mechanical” in industrial institutions and companies).