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breakdown maintenance  Reactive approach; dealing with breakdowns or problems when they occur
maintenance  All activities that maintain facilities and equipment in good working order so that a system can perform as intended.
predictive maintenance  An attempt to determine when best to perform preventive maintenance activities.
preventive maintenance  Maintaining equipment in good operating condition and replacing parts that have a tendency to fail before they actually do fail.
total productive maintenance  JIT approach where workers perform preventive maintenance on the machines they operate.







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