Abstract: A maintenance and management method of equipment for production operations, comprising: obtaining machinery component defect data by inspecting the equipment; performing countermeasures and inspections based on these data; obtaining defect frequency data and inspection standards data, classifying the defects of the equipment by importance; repeating an overall inspection based on the defect frequency data until the defect frequency data of all defect locations have lowered to a standard value or lower; then, producing operating standards data based on inspection standards data; and performing maintenance and management by individually feeding back the operating standards data to each operator, and a maintenance and management support system used for performing the method. The above maintenance and management method changes the forced deterioration of equipment to natural deterioration and standardizes the skill and knowledge level of each operator about the production machinery.