Equipment maintenance may not be low risk for automation. If you look at modern automation trends in software, a key property is that they rely on throwing thi

Equipment maintenance may not be low risk for automation. If you look at modern automation trends in software, a key property is that they rely on throwing things away that don't work, and replacing them with known-good new "instances". The same approach is already used widely for physical goods as well - the "disposable society". It's not difficult to image equipment "maintenance" being automatically performed by replacing major parts, instead of worrying about trying to diagnose and fix precisely what went wrong.