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Computer maintenance involves operational checks, servicing, and repairs to ensure equipment functionality. Various types of maintenance include condition-based, corrective, planned preventive, predictive, preventive, and total productive maintenance, each serving specific purposes to prevent faults and ensure operational efficiency. These practices are essential for maintaining computer systems throughout their lifecycle.

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Computer Maintenance

Computer maintenance involves operational checks, servicing, and repairs to ensure equipment functionality. Various types of maintenance include condition-based, corrective, planned preventive, predictive, preventive, and total productive maintenance, each serving specific purposes to prevent faults and ensure operational efficiency. These practices are essential for maintaining computer systems throughout their lifecycle.

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Computer Maintenance

The technical meaning of computer maintenance involves operational and functional checks,
servicing, repairing or replacing if necessary devices, equipment, machinery, and supporting
utilities. Over time, this has come to often include both scheduled and preventive maintenance as
cost-effective practices to keep computer equipment ready for operation at the utilization stage of
a system lifecycle.

Kinds of Computer Maintenance


The following maintenance types covers; tests, measurements, adjustments, parts & components
replacement, and cleaning, performed specifically to prevent computer faults from occurring.

1. Condition-based maintenance (CBM)


CBM is maintenance when needed. This maintenance is performed after one or more indicators
show that computer equipment is going to fail or that hardware or software’s performance is
deteriorating. This concept is applicable to mission-critical systems that incorporate active
redundancy and fault reporting. It is also applicable to non-mission critical systems that lack
redundancy and fault reporting.

2. Corrective maintenance
In computing corrective maintenance is a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate, and
rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, or hardware system can be restored to an
operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations.
Corrective maintenance can be subdivided into “immediate corrective maintenance” (in which
work starts immediately after a failure) and “deferred corrective maintenance” (in which work is
delayed in conformance to a given set of maintenance rules).

3. Planned preventive maintenance (PPM)


PPM is more commonly referred to as simply planned maintenance (PM) or scheduled
maintenance, is any variety of scheduled maintenance to an object or item of equipment.
Specifically, planned maintenance is a scheduled service visit carried out by a competent and
suitable agent, to ensure that an item of the computer equipment is operating correctly and to,
therefore, avoid any unscheduled breakdown and downtime.
4. Predictive maintenance (PdM)
PdM techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service computer equipment
in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach promises cost savings
over routine or time-based preventive maintenance because tasks are performed only when
warranted.

5. Preventive maintenance (PM)


The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining computer equipment in
satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction
of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects. Computer
Preventive maintenance tends to follow planned guidelines from time-to-time to prevent
equipment and machinery breakdown.

6. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)


TPM is a system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems
through the computers, machines, equipment, processes, and employees that add business value
to an organisation.

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