Most maintenance programs are inefficient. One big reason for that is they’re not using the right types of maintenance. Remember, there is no ‘best’ type of maintenance. You need to match the right type of maintenance with the characteristics of the failure mode your dealing with and with your organisational objectives That’s why in the next few days... I’ll talk about the 9 Types of Maintenance in greater detail. 1-Preventive Maintenance (PM) 2-Corrective Maintenance (CM) 3-Time-based Maintenance (TBM) 4-Failure Finding Maintenance (FFM) 5-Risk-based Maintenance (RBM) 6-Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) 7-Predictive Maintenance (PDM) 8- Deferred Corrective Maintenance 9- Emergency Maintenance (EM) Which one do you use the most? Source: Erik Hupjé, LinkedIn