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 Preventive maintenance is a schedule of planned maintenance actions aimed at the prevention of breakdowns and failures. The primary goal of preventive maintenance is to prevent the failure of equipment before it actually occurs. It is designed to preserve and enhance equipment reliability by replacing worn components before they actually fail. Preventive maintenance activities include equipment checks, partial or complete overhauls at specified periods. The ideal preventive maintenance program would prevent all equipment failure before it occurs. Touch can offer a nationwide, comprehensive preventative maintenance program at your end-users location offering a transactional unit rate to ensure that you can budget and understand the value of the preventative maintenance program. Whilst we are performing the program, we can also provide PAT testing and asset tracking services at the same time on the same visit.
Value of Preventive Maintenance There are multiple misconceptions about preventive maintenance. One such misconception is that PM is unduly costly. This logic dictates that it would cost more for regularly scheduled downtime and maintenance than it would normally cost to operate equipment until repair is absolutely necessary. This may be true for some components; however, one should compare not only the costs but the long-term benefits and savings associated with preventive maintenance. Without preventive maintenance, for example, costs of downtime from unscheduled equipment breakdown will be incurred. Also, preventive maintenance will result in savings due to an increase of effective system service life. Long-term benefits of preventive maintenance include:
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