It is no surprise that those who enter the maintenance field are mechanics at heart. These are people who possess a native love for machinery and the thrill that comes from making broken things run again. Those of us who lack mechanical aptitude have great appreciation for the craftsman who instinctively knows just where the problem is and how to fix it.

Yet today’s reliability-conscious world is changing the maintenance persona, taking it in a direction away from the macho image of the past. It’s no longer politically correct to yearn for the meltdown or the perfect storm. Fading too is the sense of pride that came with going into battle, wrench in hand, to press the limits of one’s mechanical proficiency. Perhaps a sad reality to some, but a reality nonetheless.

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Indeed it’s hard to justify spending time and money on things that aren’t yet broken when your maintenance staff is hog-tied, fixing the things that have broken. When breakdowns occur… well, you know the drill… not much else gets done until things are up and running again.

Let’s face it, breakdown maintenance is just plain unruly. It’s defiant, won’t conform to a schedule, and belies the budget. Breakdown maintenance is destructive and wasteful. It highjacks precious manpower and robs resource-limited organizations of operating capital. And worst of all, it has an obscene sense of timing.

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The field of maintenance technology is going through a revolution of change. Gone are the days when a machine had a predictable service life, after which it was replaced, continuing the cycle. Today machinery and equipment can be maintained to achieve useful operating lives many times that attainable just a few years ago. It is no longer a truism that all machines are built to fail. Why? Because there is an increasing understanding of the causes of failure, and, armed with this information, it is possible to prevent the initiation of failure proactively. The field of proactive maintenance targets this very objective.

When maintenance is performed in response to failure it is called breakdown maintenance. When maintenance is performed according to a schedule it is called preventive maintenance. When maintenance is performed in response to a detected impending failure it is called predictive maintenance. When maintenance is performed in response to detected conditions that avoid the onset of failure (by correcting the conditions) it is called proactive maintenance.

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