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Businesses that use equipment to provide goods or services must maintain that equipment. These businesses usually follow one of three maintenance philosophies:
- Corrective maintenance
- preventive maintenance
- predictive maintenance
Corrective maintenance
Under this philosophy, equipment is repaired when the equipment breaks down. It would be similar to you replacing your car’s engine every time it froze up because it needed an oil change. Companies that use corrective maintenance don’t want waste time performing maintenance until there is an actual failure. Unfortunately, an unplanned machine failure can cause significant disruptions. Such disruptions include unplanned stops in production, delays in waiting for replacement parts and additional repair due to broken machine components. Because of this, many consider corrective maintenance a poor philosophy.
