There is never any shortage of great one-liners when you attend a conference. In particular when sharing information on a panel. Maintenance know-how, knowledge and information was at its premium best at the recent Global Executive Mining Maintenance Summit held in Singapore this month. Following are some more one-liners that depict the industry.

"Why are the basics of maintenance so difficult to follow? What is preventing people from doing decent maintenance? The answer is the amount of time a foreman needs to spend on this detail."

Jan Smit, Anglo American Platinum, Soiuth Africa group maintenance manager

"In India, 20% of mine downtime is coming from imported products not being available."

Aditya Birla Group, India corporate world class manufacturing deputy general Naveen Goyal

"There are two motivators for contracting out - one is to make things cheaper, the other is to outsource non-core activities."

Sandy Dunn, Plant Maintenance Resource Centre, Australia founder