Maintenance

A tractor being mechanically repaired in Werneuchen, 1966
Field repair of aircraft engine (1915–1916)

The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installations.[1][2] Over time, this has come to include multiple wordings that describe various cost-effective practices to keep equipment operational; these activities occur either before[3] or after a failure.

  1. ^ "Defense Logistics Agency". DLA.mil. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  2. ^ "European Federation of National Maintenance Societies". EFNMS.org. Retrieved 5 August 2016. 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. These include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions.
  3. ^ Ken Staller. "Defining Preventive & Predictive Maintenance".