Definition: Proactive Maintenance
August 25, 2010
Maintenance Work is completed to avoid failures or to indentify defects that could lead to failure (failure finding). It includes routine preventive and predictive maintenance activities and work tasks identified from them.
Tip excerpted from The Professional’s Guide To Maintenance And Reliability
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1) Posted 3:30 pm, 02 March 2011 by Flávio Nassur Espinosa