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Introduction: Risk treatment actions (maintenance tasks) selection to be applied to the productive equipment in companies has been a topic that has become very popular nowadays. Objective: To develop a procedure for the implementation of the risk-based maintenance system for equipment in "José María Pérez Capote" Agroindustrial Sugar Company. Materials and Methods: Several methods and tools were used in this research, such as: documentary review and literature study analysis; criticality analysis for equipment selection; observation, unstructured interview and failure mode and effects analysis for risk identification; and group dynamics for decision making (risk assessment and treatment). Results and Discussion: The fundamental result of this research lies in the proposed procedure design, which, through the integration of a group of techniques, allows to establish the general bases for the implementation of the risk-based maintenance system in the company, seeking to improve the performance of the equipment under analysis. Conclusions: The implementation of the designed procedure allowed defining the maintenance tasks focused on mitigating the risk levels associated with the failure modes that may have the greatest incidence on the performance of the selected equipment. Also as estimating the degree of improvement that can be achieved in the risk priority number associated with these failure modes after the treatment actions have been implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this investigation is to show the impact in the economic, energy, ecological and sociocultural order that has experienced the sugar agroindustry in the local and territorial development of Encrucijada municipality, in Villa Clara province. The main methods and techniques used have been the surveys, the documentary analysis, the work with experts, agrarian commission's reports of the municipal assembly, the matrix of weaknesses, strengths, threats, opportunities and the scenarios technique for the approach of strategic actions. In this work, a diagnosis study of the municipality is carried out, determining the main strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities with the corresponding strategies and actions for their improvement. Among the main results of the work is the contribution of 41 866,76 Cuban pesos in a sugar harvest for the contribution of sugar production, final honey, urea honey, cane bagasse for animal food, ice and the electric power generation as a contribution to the national net. Finally, the general procedure used is shown to directives and workers of the sector for the implementation and generalization of the work and its necessary level of consciousness of the value and importance of those productions for the improvement of conditions and quality of life of the citizens of this municipality. For the evaluation of this work the technique of consent index is used among experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]