Possible Clues:

• Provide new equipment robber picked up
• Upgrade, as a factory
• Update factory machinery
• Gear up for a new model
• Equip anew, as a machine shop
• Make equipment changes
• Update, as a factory
• Upgrade, as machinery
• Install new machinery
• Modernize, in a way ... and when divided into three parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues