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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Preventive maintenance (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey. (1995-02-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Military | Systematic and/or prescribed maintenance intended to reduce the probability of failure. See also corrective maintenance. (references) |
Mining | A system that enables breakdowns to be anticipated and arrangements madeto perform the necessary overhauls and replacements in good time. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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
Some consider the phrase to be an oxymoron. Over-zealous 'Preventive maintenance' has sometimes been mocked as 'causative maintenance' as it is often associated with system failures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Preventive maintenance."
Crosswords: PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE |
| Specialty definitions using "PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE": AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT ENGINEER-TECHNICIAN ♦ BOOKMOBILE DRIVER ♦ CARPENTER INSPECTOR, corrective maintenance ♦ DISTRIBUTION SUPERVISOR ♦ engineer, automated equipment, engineering and maintenance manager ♦ flow-solder machine operator, foreseen interruption ♦ INFANTRY WEAPONS CREWMEMBER ♦ LASERIST ♦ MAINTENANCE DATA ANALYST ♦ PARKING-METER SERVICER, PM, predictable break, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR ♦ radiologic electronic specialist, RADIOLOGICAL-EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST, REPAIRER, WELDING SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT ♦ SMOKE AND FLAME SPECIALIST, SUPERINTENDENT, MAINTENANCE, SUPERVISOR, LOCOMOTIVE ♦ technician, automated equipment, TRAIN DISPATCHER, ASSISTANT CHIEF ♦ UNATTENDED-GROUND-SENSOR SPECIALIST ♦ WAVE-SOLDERING MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Synonym: PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCESynonym: Maintenance and repair. (additional references) |
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Health | Interest in preventive maintenance treatment has been stimulated further by results from recent long-term trials involving antidepressant drugs and lithium. (references) | |
Business | Their service ranging from routine preventive maintenance, technical support, spare parts service, to assisting in the new equipment purchase. (references) | |
Lastly, since, the conditions of the roads in the PA vary from poor to moderate and people do not practice a very high level of preventive maintenance, demand for replacing old, worn-out and broken parts is expected to steadily rise over the next 5-10 years. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE": planned preventive maintenance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorbeugende Wartung (corrective maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προληπτική συντήρηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tervszerû megelõzõ karbantartás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eventivepray aintenancemay manutenção preventiva. (various references) профилактика (preventiveness, prophylaxis, prophylaxy). (various references) preventivni remont. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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