BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Maintenance
- the process of keeping physical assets in working order to ensure their availability and to reduce the chance of failure. An effective maintenance program can enhance safety, increase reliability, reduce quality errors, lower operating costs, and increase the life span of assets. There are different maintenance approaches, including reactive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and preventive maintenance. Two strategies that have more recently become prominent are reliability centered maintenance and total productive maintenance.
Wiktionary Definition for: Maintenance
- #Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
- # law a tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- English maintenance
Additional Resources
- Operation and maintenance. (Lift Truck Investment Handbook, educational supplement sponsored by Nissan Equipment Co.)
- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE A lift truck's fuel and maintenance needs will vary depending on truck type, application conditions, and maintenance program quality. However, if a truck is operated for seven years, fuel and maintenance costs can easily OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ...
- Research articles 1990-03-01
- American Airlines to shutter Kansas City maintenance base
- American Airlines announced this morning that it will close its Kansas City maintenance base, ending speculation about what the USA's No. 2 carrier long-term plans would be for the facility. The Associated Press writes AA said it would shutter the "maintenance base next September because reduced flying means less need...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Air Maintenance Estonia - Aircraft Line and Base Maintenance, Component Maintenance and Engineering Services
- AS Air Maintenance Estonia AME is located in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and is fully owned by SAS Technical Services STS. AME offers aircraft maintenance services ranging from ad-hoc to base maintenance activities on Boeing 737 both Classic and NG, line maintenance to different aircraft types and aircraft components...
- White papers
- M-O-W meets today's technology: Computers helping to keep maintenance-of-way on track - Maintenance of Way
- Computer applications are moving out of the office and into the field, assisting track, c&s and structural maintainers with data collection and management. Computerized maintenance-of-way systems are also helping in the realm of maintenance planning and scheduling. ZETA-TECH ZETA-TECH Associates, Inc., computerized maintenance-of-way activities and software packages deal...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- Ivara Congratulates Dofasco on Best Managed Maintenance Facility Win; Dofasco Uses Ivara Reliability Solution to Capture Plant Engineering and Maintenance Magazine's 2005 Award
- BURLINGTON, Ontario -- Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset reliability solutions, today extends congratulations to Dofasco, one of Canada's largest steel producers, for winning Plant Engineering and Maintenance Magazine's PEM prestigious 2005 Maintenance Award. The Award, which recognizes maintenance excellence, was presented this week at an event...
- Research articles 2005-12-02
- Gulf Air and SR Technics sign MOU on maintenance; Maintenance joint venture in Oman Total maintenance package for Gulf Air fleet Creation of 850 jobs in Oman.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 March 2006-Gulf Air: Gulf Air and SR Technics sign MOU on maintenance; Maintenance joint venture in Oman Total maintenance package for Gulf Air fleet Creation of 850 jobs in OmanC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23032006 Muscat, Oman - Gulf Air...
- Research articles 2006-03-23
- Aleier to Spotlight Condition-Based Maintenance at Reliability Centered Maintenance Forum
- Wireless News 04-01-2007 Aleier to Spotlight Condition-Based Maintenance at Reliability Centered Maintenance Forum WIRELESS NEWS-April 1, 2007-Aleier to Spotlight Condition-Based Maintenance at Reliability Centered Maintenance Forum C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Aleier, a subsidiary of RF Monolithics...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Quantitative Models for Building Repair and Maintenance: A Comparative Case-Study
- This paper presents a comparative study of three well-established building maintenance-forecasting models in conjunction with a quantitative model, which has been developed recently. After a brief introduction of each method, data collected from a large building survey were mapped into four distinctive methods and comparison was carried out in terms...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Making The Case For Maintenance Initiatives
- In an age of company downsizing, justifying major expenses to the keeper of the checkbook is a fact. Many maintenance managers struggle to communicate the benefits of their department's needs in terms that upper management understands. This article tries to address various requirements, which will help one win over upper...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Maintenance Management Joins the Party
- Maintenance management always seemed to be the overlooked application on which few pharmaceutical manufacturers were eager to invest much time or money. Maintenance management is absolutely becoming more strategic to the enterprise, both from a compliance standpoint and a productivity standpoint. The paper shows that most large pharmaceutical manufacturers perform...
- White papers
- An ERP Maintenance Model
- Enterprise Resource Planning ERP maintenance and upgrade activities are receiving much attention in ERP-using organizations. Annual maintenance costs approximate 25% of initial ERP implementation costs, and upgrade costs as much as 25-33% of the initial ERP implementation. Still, the area of ERP maintenance and upgrade is relatively new and understudied...
- White papers 2002-12-09
- Janitors, Maintenance Workers Seek Redress from Contract Cleaning Maintenance or Services and Others Over Required Overtime Pay
- CHICAGO, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Individuals who worked for Contract Cleaning Maintenance or Contract Cleaning Services in a cleaning, janitorial or maintenance role may be eligible to join in a class action lawsuit alleging they were denied required oCHICAGO, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Individuals who worked for Contract...
- Research articles 2005-06-16
- Janitors, Maintenance Workers Seek Redress from Contract Cleaning Maintenance or Services and Others Over Required Overtime Pay
- CHICAGO, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Individuals who worked for Contract Cleaning Maintenance or Contract Cleaning Services in a cleaning, janitorial or maintenance role may be eligible to join in a class action lawsuit alleging they were denied required oCHICAGO, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Individuals who worked for Contract...
- Research articles 2005-06-16
- The Coast Guard has issued a solicitation for a standard competition to provide facilities maintenance and base maintenance services at USCG Support Center, Elizabeth City, NC.(A-76 Competitions)(Brief Article)
- The Coast Guard has issued a solicitation for a standard competition to provide facilities maintenance and base maintenance services at USCG Support Center, Elizabeth City, NC. This is a small ... The Coast Guard has issued a solicitation for a standard competition to provide facilities...
- Research articles 2004-04-02
- JAL deploys Boeing's Maintenance Toolbox solution
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-6 October 2005-JAL deploys Boeing's Maintenance Toolbox solutionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Japan Airlines JAL is the first licensed customer of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services to use its Maintenance Performance Toolbox, a set of solutions for aircraft maintenance and troubleshooting. The Maintenance Toolbox is accessed as a secured,...
- Research articles 2005-10-06
- Department of Defense News Release : DoD announces maintenance award winners
- The Department of Defense announced today the annual winners of the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards, the Phoenix, and the Robert T. Mason Trophies recognizing excellence in field and depot-level maintenance. The field-level maintenance awards honor military maintenance organizations for outstanding performance. The awardees--two from each category of small,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Boeing productivity tools to help transform Skymark's maintenance operations.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 2006-BOEING: Boeing productivity tools to help transform Skymark's maintenance operationsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02082006 SEATTLE - Skymark of Japan has adopted Boeing's [NYSE: BA] Web-based maintenance solution, Maintenance Performance Toolbox. Toolbox, an innovative suite of software solutions...
- Research articles 2006-08-02
- Boeing Improves 777 Maintenance Program.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 May 2006-BOEING: Boeing Improves 777 Maintenance ProgramC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04052006 SEATTLE - Recent improvements to the scheduled maintenance program for the Boeing [NYSE: BA] 777 promise to reduce airlines' maintenance costs and increase the time a 777 airplane...
- Research articles 2006-05-05
- DoD announces maintenance award winners.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 October 2006-US DOD: DoD announces maintenance award winnersC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26102006 The Departmentof Defense announced today the annual winners of the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards, the Phoenix and the Robert T. Mason Trophies recognizing excellence in field...
- Research articles 2006-10-27
- Annual Maintenance Awards announced.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 2006-US DOD: Annual Maintenance Awards announcedC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02112006 The Department of Defense has named the winners of the Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards. Each year the Secretary of Defense recognizes excellence in both field- and depot-level...
- Research articles 2006-11-03
