Importance of Preventive Maintenance

Let's start with the defenition of Preventive Maintenance, so you can have a simple, but yet a clear concept of its pupose.

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Preventive maintenance

Preventive maintenance (PM) has the following meanings:

1. The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects.
2. Maintenance, including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement, performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

While preventive maintenance is generally considered to be worthwhile, it is important to note that there are risks such as equipment failure or human error involved when performing PM, just as in any maintenance operation. PM is also sometimes augmented by Reliability Centered Maintenance, which attempts to determine the best PM tasks, and by predictive maintenance, which models past behavior to predict failures.

To make it simple:

* Preventive maintenance is conducted to keep equipment working and/or extend the life of the equipment.
* Corrective maintenance, sometimes called "repair", is conducted to get equipment working again.

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, oil changes, lubrication and so on. In addition, workers can record equipment deterioration so they know to replace or repair worn parts before they cause system failure. The ideal preventive maintenance program would prevent all equipment failure before it occurs.

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Preventive maintenance is one of the most ignored aspects of computer ownership, in my opinion as an expert. Most people seem to think that the PC doesn't need preventive maintenance, and so you should just use it until it breaks down or doesn't turn on, and then repair or replace it. These people generally find themselves repairing or replacing much sooner than those that take definite steps to avoid difficulties in the first place, and most importantly plan ahead to keep your business data safe. Computer Repair Zone offers monthly maintenance, service contract, prepaid blocks of time and hourly rate so you can have the flexibility to choose the computer service that is right for your business.

Here are some reasons why you should develop a preventive maintenance program:
At Computer Repair Zone we have different plans that will help to accomplish this routine for you.
- Preventive Maintenance Saves Time, Money and Improves Productivity:
Just as a car cannot be expected to run at peak condition if the oil changes and maintenance are not performed on a regular basis, the same principles apply for your computer. Recognizing the need for routine maintenance can save both time and money in the long run. Reducing down-time helps to keep a business fully operational, while computer systems which are running at its top performance can extend the life of the product exponentially.
- Preventive Maintenance Helps Safeguard Your Company Data:
Taking steps to protect your computer will protect the hardware that contains the data. There's no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn't backed up, it's gone; to recover that will cost you time and money as well.