Maintenance
Maintenance is any activity performed on an asset with a view to ensuring that it is able to deliver an expected level of service until it is scheduled to be renewed, replaced or disposed of.
Alternate Definitions
- "All actions necessary for retaining an asset as near as practical to its original condition, but excluding rehabilitation." - National Asset Management Manual
- "The routine activities to sustain standards of performance throughout the in-service, or operational, part of the asset life cycle." - Plant Maintenance Resource Centre
- "All actions which have the objective of retaining or restoring an item in or to a state in which it can perform its required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions." - European Federation of National Maintenance Societies
- "Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service." - Wiktionary
- "To take action to preserve." - Concise Oxford Dictionary
- "The replacement or repair of components and assemblies (before or after failure) so that the unit concerned can perform its designated function over its expected life." - CQU Maintenance Management Study Notes (ENMM 20011)
- "Regular ongoing day-to-day work necessary to keep assets operating, eg road patching". - Main Roads (Queensland).
- "The combination of all technical and associated administrative actions intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform its required function." - Total Management Planning - Glossary of Terms
Types of Maintenance
- Breakdown Maintenance
- Condition Based Maintenance
- Corrective Maintenance
- Cyclical Maintenance
- Emergency Maintenance
- Periodic Maintenance
- Planned Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance
- Preventive Maintenance
- Proactive Maintenance
- Programmed Maintenance
- Reactive Maintenance
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Routine Maintenance
- Scheduled Maintenance
- Unplanned Maintenance
Maintenance Activities
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