Types of Traditional Maintenance

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Types of maintenance

Traditionally, 5 types of maintenance have been distinguished, which are differentiated by the nature of the tasks that they include:

1- Corrective maintenance: The set of tasks is prepared to correct the defects to be found in the different equipment and that are communicated to the maintenance department by users of the same equipment.

2- Preventive Maintenance: Its mission is to maintain a level of certain service on equipment, programming the interventions of their vulnerabilities in the most opportune time. It is used to be a systematic character, that is, the equipment is inspected even if it has not given any symptoms of having a problem.

3- Predictive Maintenance: It keep constantly track of know and report the status and operational capacity of the installations by knowing the values of certain variables, which represent such state and operational ability. To apply this maintenance, it is necessary to identify physical variables (temperature, Noise, vibration, power consumption, etc.). Which variation is indicative of problems that may be appearing on the UPS. This maintenance it is the most technical, since it requires advanced technical resources, and at times of strong mathematical, physical and / or technical knowledge.

4- Zero Hours Maintenance (Overhaul): The set of tasks whose goal is to review the equipment at scheduled intervals before appearing any failure, either when the reliability of the equipment has decreased considerably so it is risky to make forecasts of production capacity . This review is based on leaving the equipment to zero hours of operation, that is, as if the equipment were new. These reviews will replace or repair all items subject to wear. The aim is to ensure, with high probability, a good working time fixed in advance.

5- Periodic maintenance (Time Based Maintenance TBM): the basic maintenance of equipment. It consists of a series of elementary tasks (data collections, visual inspections, cleaning, re-tightening screws,…). This type of maintenance is the based on TPM (Total Productive Maintenance).