What is the difference between centralized and decentralized maintenance?

Centralized maintenance means that those charged with maintaining equipment, buildings, grounds and many more. it have a common supervisor so that the company does not waste time or money on duplication or working at cross purposes. Centralized organizations are those that workers are not involved in devision making while decentralized organization are those which involve their workers in decision making. Decentralized maintenance function can produce quicker respond time and allow workers to become more familir with the problems of a particular section of the plant. For centralized maintenance, in the creation of a number of small unit tense to reduce the flexibility of the maintenance system as a whole.