FAQs  Frequently Asked Maintenance Questions

Maintenance combines proactive and reactive actions to keep machinery, facilities, and equipment running efficiently and safely. Different types of maintenance, like planned, reactive & preventive, including condition-based, each address specific needs and help prevent costly breakdowns.

Planned maintenance is a strategy that allows facilities teams to proactively manage assets and facilities. Encompassing both preventive and corrective maintenance, planned maintenance helps to reduce reliance on costly reactive maintenance.

Planned maintenance is often required to obtain permissions to operate, specifically where it relates to critical systems. For example, buildings must have an operational fire safety system before any kind of occupancy is permitted. The regular inspections of, and maintenance on these systems forms a part of planned maintenance strategy.

Part of the compliance obligations surrounding these systems is being able to prove that the work was conducted, and report on that work in a reasonable timeframe.

Reactive maintenance is an essential part of maintenance strategy. However, over-reliance on reactive maintenance creates unnecessary costs and inefficiencies.

When it comes to critical systems, relying on reactive maintenance exposes the business to significant risk. If a critical system is to fail, the business has to stop operations until the issue is resolved.

By implementing a planned maintenance strategy, the risk of a critical system failing is significantly reduced.

Additionally, often the organisation has to prove that planned maintenance has been conducted, as a condition to attaining permissions to operate.

Preventive maintenance is a core part of planned maintenance, and refers to work and inspections done on a regular schedule. The difference between preventive, and corrective maintenance, is that corrective maintenance is done in response to a maintenance need uncovered during the course of these regular inspections.

For example, preventive maintenance would be a regular inspection on a fire sprinkler system. Corrective maintenance would occur if during that inspection, a non-urgent maintenance requirement was uncovered, for example a loose washer.

If that washer had degraded and caused a noticeable leak, fixing it would be considered reactive maintenance.

Our maintenance services include preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and emergency repairs. We ensure that all equipment and facilities are functioning optimally to prevent any disruptions to your business operations.