| Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Another flaw in human | | | | involves checking the current system health |
| character is that everybody wants to build and | | | | (efficiency check) and identifying areas where |
| nobody wants to do Maintenance."This remark | | | | problems could occur in the future. This type of |
| perfectly describes our ignorance towards the | | | | Maintenance involves listing future problems, but |
| important task of Maintenance. Be it regular | | | | does not incorporate the measures.Corrective |
| Maintenance of our car or spending money on | | | | Maintenance (CM) is the third Maintenance type. It |
| house repair, we usually try to avoid these | | | | is a retroactive strategy and is used when any |
| Maintenance jobs on one pretext or the | | | | failure or fault occurs in the system. The basic |
| other.Though we must realize the inherited | | | | objective behind this Maintenance type is to |
| benefits of doing regular Maintenance. By taking | | | | correct the fault soon, with less emphasis on cost |
| care of our valuables and spending time and | | | | and more on time.The last type is Reliability |
| money on their regular Maintenance, we could use | | | | Centered Maintenance (RCM). This is the latest |
| them for a longer duration of time and get the | | | | Maintenance technique, which involves continuous |
| maximum benefits out of them.Maintenance is | | | | improvement of Maintenance programs in the |
| usually one of four types. The first one is | | | | most cost-effective terms and in a technically |
| Preventive Maintenance (PM). In this Maintenance | | | | feasible manner. RCM focuses on listing past |
| mechanism, you need to take some extra steps | | | | failures and Maintenance history, and emphasizes |
| at present to foresee and rectify events that | | | | the functional importance of system |
| could possibly lead to problems in the future. It is | | | | components.Maintenance provides detailed |
| usually done under the guidance of experts, and is | | | | information about maintenance, aircraft |
| beneficial in decreasing unexpected expenses and | | | | maintenance, car maintenance, equipment |
| availing consistent performance.The second type | | | | maintenance and more. Maintenance is the sister |
| is Predictive Maintenance (PdM). This Maintenance | | | | site of Pontoon Boat Lifts. |