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preventive maintenance: a standalone construct

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preventivemaintenance1 CONSTRUCTPreventive maintenanceBARLOW · MAINTENANCE

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Maintenance engineering

servicing or replacing equipment on a schedule before failure, with policies chosen to minimize cost or downtime.

In maintenance engineering, preventive maintenance refers to servicing or replacing equipment on a schedule before failure, with policies chosen to minimize cost or downtime. This meaning comes from Barlow (1960) in Operations Research.[1]

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References

  1. Barlow, R., & Hunter, L. (1960). Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies. Operations Research, 8(1), 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.8.1.90

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