maintenance
Also known as maintenance work
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Research
417,379 papers- Proactive Maintenance of Pump Systems Operating in the Mining Industry-A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- High-Maintenance Patients.Family practice management · 2019
- Risk-based maintenance of ethylene oxide production facilities.Journal of hazardous materials · 2004
- Equipment Safety, Maintenance and Inspection: What the Oral Surgeon Needs to Know.Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America · 2017
- Maintenance and inspection as risk factors in helicopter accidents: Analysis and recommendations.PloS one · 2019
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14 sectionsContents
- Definitions
- Types
- Preventive maintenance
- Planned maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance
- Challenges
- Value potential
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Corrective maintenance
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
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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. Terms such as "predictive" or "planned" maintenance describe various cost-effective practices aimed at keeping equipment operational; these activities occur either before or after a potential failure.