Maintenance organization and Types of maintenance

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Maintenance organization and Types of maintenance
Types of maintenance
Each and every form of technology requires maintenance at a certain time of its life. Maintenance refers to services given to a machine, computer or any type of technology to improve its performance and ensure that its productivity is not derailed. Maintenance has been classified into four groups: reactive, preventive, predictive and prevention. Firsts, breakdown maintenance is done when equipment fails and needs to be repaired (CMMSpro 2008). This occurs when equipment failure does not lead to significant loss of productivity and does not generate huge losses apart from repairing cost. Second, preventive maintenance is carried out on a daily basis such as oiling, cleaning, inspection and retightening. The aim is to maintain healthy equipment by preventing deterioration through periodic inspection. This maintenance is further subdivided into periodic and predictive maintenance.
Periodic is time based consisting of periodic servicing, inspection, cleaning and replacing broken parts to prevent sudden problems and failure. Predictive maintenance occurs where service life of certain parts is predicated through diagnosis and inspection. It is condition based maintenance since trend values are measured and analyzed using a surveillance system. An online system is used to monitor performance of specific parts. Third, corrective maintenance is meant to improve the performance of equipment in order for preventive maintenance to be performed reliably (CMMSpro 2008). When the design of equipment has a problem, it has to be redesigned so that reliability and maintainability can be improved. Lastly, maintenance prevention is used to indicate the design of new equipment. Analysts first have to study the problems of a new machine. This will provide on site information that will prevent failure and enhance easier prevention. When the defects are prevented, there will be an easier and safer manufacturing since reliability will be incorporated in the new equipment.
Maintenance organization
Maintenance organization refers to processes and structures adopted by an organization after it plans its maintenance capacity. Maintenance can be defined as a set of administrative, technical and managerial functions performed on a function, equipment or the organization as a whole. Maintenance management can be defined as processes and activities that lead and direct maintenance organization (Haroun &. Duffuaa 2011). Activities that determine maintenance organization include maintenance priorities or objectives, strategies, and responsibilities. The major determinant of maintenance organization capacity is the level of decentralization or centralization that an organization adopts. Some of the issues that determine formation of maintenance organization’s structure include centralization v decentralization, capacity planning and in-house v outsourcing.
The role of Maintenance Capacity Planning is to determine the amount of resources r...