Maintenance is of several kinds.  However, today we will see about machine maintenance and what are its types.  Maintenance in simple words means maintaining or taking care of the machines or appliance.  In maintenance the problems of the machine and be upcoming problems are detected and then it is fixed.  This is mostly in the case of machine maintenance.  Machine maintenance also involved other parts like cleaning the machine and looking after the machine or appliance.  Cleaning the machine or appliances and its parts can also be called as machine maintenance. In machine maintenance, some major problems like technical failures, wear and tear etc. is detected and the problem is fixed.

Maintenance –

For machine and appliance maintenance there are several kinds of technician who do the services of various kind of machine and appliances, where the use different method and mechanical strategies etc.  You can find several different types of technicians like mechanics, Engineers, IT staff people etc. Now for the technicians to be successful in their maintenance work, it is very important for them to know the various kinds of maintenance and work on it efficiently, in order to avoid further problems in the machine or appliances.  One of the best and mostly used types of maintenance work that the technicians do are the preventive maintenance.

Car Companies & Preventive Maintenance

Most of the time the car companies and IT department follow the preventive maintenance methods for their machines and appliances. Preventive maintenance is the type of maintenance in which the technical defects and problems are identified before the problem arises or hits the user.  In this type of maintenance the check-up of the machines or appliances are done on a regular basis.  For example, the servicing of the car.  If the car is taken for servicing once in a month or quarterly, then most of the problems in the car can be detected before hand and it can be fixed.

Preventive Maintenance and Popularity –

This is known as preventive maintenance of the car.  Similarly, there is other kind of maintenance also but preventive maintenance is more popular and many people prefer this type of preventive maintenance.  It is because one of the major benefits of preventive maintenance work is that it saves the machine or appliances from unexpected failure or shutdown.  Then another type of maintenance, which is again popular, is condition-based maintenance.  Condition based maintenance is one of the latest types of maintenance.  It is an alternative to preventive maintenance.  Many car companies and computer system/IT staffs follow both preventive maintenance as well as condition-based maintenance, which is Instandhaltungsstrategien.

Experiment with Machines –

Several companies are there that follow different type of maintenance.  Apart from that, the maintenance companies like that of cars & IT, take the annual charges for the maintenance work.  They will look after the maintenance of their companies machines or appliance and will check the machines and appliances time to time without any delay. Condition based maintenance is the type of maintenance  in which rather than checking for any kind of wear or tear in the machines, the technicians will experiment with the machines and look for various kinds of problems or wear or tear. The technicians will look for some kinds of changes and these changes will help them identify the problem with the machines or the appliances.

Condition-Based Maintenance –

This is also common in the car companies, where the technicians check the machines of cars and look for some changes like some extra sound or vibrations, etc. and from such changes, they can identify the defects in the car machines and others and likewise with other machines and appliances also. Condition based maintenance is also closely connected with predictive maintenance.  In predictive base maintenance, the sensor devices or software is connected to the components of the machine.  Through the sensor, the data is transferred in the software.  In the predictive type of maintenance, the software interprets the data and warns the technician about the upcoming mechanical failure and technical problems.

Predictive & Corrective Maintenance –

In predictive maintenance, there is a lot of information for the software to interpret.  Apart from that, the sensor that is connected to the components of the machine also needs a regular check-up.  It is because if the sensor fails, then it would be difficult to find out the problem in the machine or appliances.   Other important types of maintenance are known as corrective maintenance.  This is a type of maintenance in which while working or doing the maintenance work, suddenly the technician identifies the problem just in time.  For example – the technician is doing a preventive maintenance of car when suddenly the horn of the car starts making low voice.  Here the technician had just identified the problem in time. So, these are the types of maintenance that technicians do.