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Preventive Maintenance
Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance (PM)

Preventive Maintenance

Time- or usage-based maintenance performed before failure to reduce the probability of breakdown.

Examples

  1. 01The preventive maintenance plan for the compressor includes an oil change every 2,000 hours and a belt check every month.
  2. 02The weekly maintenance review tracks preventive maintenance tasks for critical assets and their completion rate.
  3. 03Preventive maintenance records are linked to failure history, so tasks that do not prevent failures can be removed.

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