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It trains African health workers to drive safely on difficult terrain and teaches them how to carry out simple maintenance checks on their vehicles on a daily basis.
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The potential gain for innovation from of reducing the maintenance spend is huge, as simple arithmetic shows a 10 percent reduction in maintenance to 70 percent allows an increase in innovation budgets, from 20 to 30 percent, a 50 percent gain.
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It's a good idea to learn enough about the basics of auto maintenance to undertake simple chores such as changing air filters or replacing light bulbs, though even this can be tricky in some cars.
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They worry that replacing a simple shaft with a complex gearbox will increase maintenance costs and make it more likely that something will go wrong.
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Schwartz believed memory maintenance could be boiled down to a simple molecular mechanism, but it was no easy matter to find the important one.
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Even simple technologies, such as tablets, bring other costs, including implementation, maintenance upgrades and repair.
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