Glossary
What is a Maintenance Strategy?
A maintenance strategy is the overall approach an organisation takes to maintaining its assets—e.g. reactive-only, preventive-focused, or a mix of preventive, predictive and condition-based. Strategy choices depend on criticality, cost and resources.
What it means
Strategy guides how much PM to do, which assets get what type of maintenance, and how maintenance is resourced and measured.
Why it matters
- Strategy can be reactive, preventive, predictive or a combination.
- Criticality and cost-effectiveness drive strategy per asset or type.
- RCM and similar methods help define strategy.
- Strategy is implemented as PM plans and priorities in a CMMS.
Example in maintenance operations
Critical production equipment: preventive + predictive. General lighting: reactive. Fleet vehicles: preventive by mileage.
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