The name MRO (an acronym for Maintenance, Repair and Operations) identifies all those activities carried out to ensure the correct functioning of all the equipment, machinery and resources used by a company within the production process. It therefore refers not only to the mechanical components of industrial machines, but ranges from office supplies to industrial equipment and materials used in the various repair or maintenance operations and all related activities.

The management of MRO operations is delegated to company managers who may prefer that they be carried out only in the event of breakdowns and machine downtime; others, however, are able to arrange them in a preventive manner, through scheduled maintenance, reducing the risk of breakdowns to a minimum.

With MRO Automatic Vending Machines it is possible to have an organised system that allows you to keep track, having full control, of all the tools and materials needed to carry out these operations. They are essential for companies that need to speed up, monitor and make their MRO process management more efficient. Furthermore, correct MRO management also includes all the useful information such as warehouse stock and the supply of necessary resources; in this way it is possible to reduce downtime and consequently contain costs.

MRO operations, together with those also known as Automatic MRO, are used to improve your company's equipment. The use of automatic MRO warehouses can facilitate all the operations related to their correct management. In fact, these automatic warehouses allow you to manage and monitor the collection and return of the equipment used and any spare parts through operator recognition and, if installed close to the place where the activities are carried out (so-called "on-line" warehouses), they avoid the downtime highlighted in the "spaghetti charts".

In a logic of Industry 4.0 and Lean Management, the elimination of waste of materials, time and optimization of management processes is increasingly widespread; therefore, the need for Automatic Distributors with 24x365 availability and relative traceability is growing.