Normal Maintenance Activities Requiring Planning

Recurring or Repetitive Maintenance Activities

These are to be planned for entire year. However, the preventive maintenance can be planned in long range based on a distinct predetermined time interval or failure frequency or machine health conditions. The other maintenance activities such as repairs and replacements cannot be easily scheduled.

Preventive and Planned Maintenance

We know that prevention is better than cure. The following are very common and simple activities of maintenance that can be effectively planned so as to save the time.

• Lubrication
• Inspection
• Overhauls

Corrective Maintenance

The corrective maintenance includes repetitive and regular work that can be planned on a rolling plans or short range plans. Such plans may have the following contents.

• Repairs
• Replacements
• Attention to breakdowns
• Component reconditioning
• Manufacture of spares

Non-recurring or Non-repetitive Maintenance Activities

Alterations, Updating and Modernising

Under this head we can include the long-range plans of irregular and occasional maintenance such as

• Total machines reconditioning or converting a machine to perform some other functions
• Construction and alteration of buildings
• Rearranging the layout
• Expansions or Extensions
• Design out Maintenance activities
• Upgrading the configuration of a machine

New Works

This is again a single time plan usually included in long-range plans or perspective plans if an organisation is already established. However, a new organisation in its infancy requires this planning. The activities often found in this category are

• Installation of new machines
• Establishment of new structures
• Construction of new building or a floor on already existing building
• Creating a new facility
• Commissioning a new system