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Maintenance

Maintenance is work carried out to preserve assets and enable their continued use over their design lifetime. It aims to minimize disruptions and downtimes through keeping assets in good working order. Reasons for maintenance include physical integrity, risk management, aesthetic preservation, responsible stewardship, fiscal responsibility, and duty of care. The objective of maintenance is to maximize equipment performance by preventing failures and minimizing losses from breakdowns, thereby maintaining or increasing overall system reliability through steps like preventive maintenance.

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Maintenance

Maintenance is work carried out to preserve assets and enable their continued use over their design lifetime. It aims to minimize disruptions and downtimes through keeping assets in good working order. Reasons for maintenance include physical integrity, risk management, aesthetic preservation, responsible stewardship, fiscal responsibility, and duty of care. The objective of maintenance is to maximize equipment performance by preventing failures and minimizing losses from breakdowns, thereby maintaining or increasing overall system reliability through steps like preventive maintenance.

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What is Maintenance?

Maintenance is work that is carried out to preserve an asset (such as a roof or a heating boiler), in order to enable its continued use and function, above a minimum acceptable level of performance, over its design service life, without unforeseen renewal or major repair activities.

Reasons for Maintenance

Physical Integrity. To keep the assets in good working order so as to minimize disruptions and downtimes. Risk Management. To keep the assets in a state of good repair for the owners health and safety. Aesthetic Preservation. To keep the assets from deteriorating in appearance and becoming unsightly. Responsible Stewardship. To ensure that the assets achieve their full potential service life. Fiscal Responsibility. To leverage efficiencies that can be reflected on the owners balance sheet. Duty of Care. To satisfy a legislated duty that is owed to owners, occupants and guest on the property. Duty to Mitigate. To prevent unnecessary damage to assets that may result in their premature failure.

The Objective Of Maintenance

The purpose of maintenance is to attempt to maximize the performance of equipment by ensuring that such equipment performs regularly and efficiently, by attempting to prevent breakdowns or failures, and by minimizing the losses resulting from breakdowns or failures. In fact it is the objective of the maintenance function to maintain or increase the reliability of the operating system as a whole. Many steps can be taken to ensure that such an objective is achieved, but only a few of these are normally considered to be the responsibility of the maintenance department. For Example, each of the following will contribute to the reliability of the operating system: (a) improvement of the quality of equipment and components through improved design and/or tighter manufacturing standards; (b) improvements in the design of equipment to facilitate the replacement of broken items and
inspection and routine maintenance work; (c) improvements in the layout of equipment to facilitate maintenance work, i.e. providing space around or underneath equipment; (d) providing slack in the operating system, i.e. providing excess capacity so that the failure of equipment does not affect the performance of other equipment; (e) using work-in-progress to ensure that the failure of equipment is not immediately reflected in a shortage of materials or parts for a subsequent piece of equipment; (f) establishing a repair facility so that, through speedy replacement of broken parts, equipment downtime is reduced; (g) Undertaking preventive maintenance, which, through regular inspection and/or replacement of critical parts, reduces the occurrence of breakdowns.

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