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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Commons category: Maintenance (activity)
NCI Thesaurus ID: C53297

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Contents

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.