The maintenance and repair of military equipment and vehicles to ensure operational readiness.
Preventive Maintenance: This involves regularly maintaining equipment to prevent failures or breakdowns.
Corrective Maintenance: This involves repairing equipment that has already failed, including troubleshooting and diagnosing problems.
Inventory Management: This involves managing and tracking spare parts, supplies, and equipment to ensure they are available when needed.
Equipment Installation: This involves installing new equipment and ensuring it is properly integrated into existing systems.
Safety Procedures: This involves ensuring that all maintenance and repair activities are conducted safely and efficiently.
Quality Control: This involves ensuring that all maintenance and repair work meets high quality standards and specifications.
Documentation: This involves keeping detailed records of all maintenance and repair activities, including equipment maintenance histories, work orders, and inspection reports.
Supply Chain Management: This involves managing the flow of goods and services from suppliers to the maintenance team.
Maintenance Planning: This involves developing a maintenance plan that includes scheduled maintenance, routine inspections, and emergency repairs.
Training and Development: This involves providing ongoing training and development opportunities for maintenance personnel to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their jobs effectively.
Preventive Maintenance: Planned maintenance activities performed to keep equipment operating at its best with minimum downtime. This maintenance is done before any malfunction occurs.
Corrective Maintenance: Maintenance carried out to repair equipment or machines that have malfunctioned.
Predictive Maintenance: The use of data analysis techniques to monitor the performance and condition of equipment over time.
Routine Maintenance: It includes cleaning, lubrication, replacement of small parts, and inspection of equipment every day.
Emergency maintenance: Unexpected maintenance issues (breakdowns) that must be attended to promptly.
Diagnostic Maintenance: A maintenance process carried out to identify the source of equipment issues.
Unplanned Maintenance: Maintenance that must be carried out due to sudden equipment failure, malfunction or breakdown.
Preventive Maintenance Inspection (PMI): Scheduled inspections and reviews of equipment to ensure proper functioning.
Requisition Maintenance: Maintenance that is carried out in response to a request or requisition from a user or department.
Calibration Maintenance: The maintenance process carried out on measuring or test equipment to ensure that they remain accurate and reliable.
Overhaul Maintenance: Major maintenance that involves the replacement of major parts and sub-assemblies.
Breakdown Maintenance: Maintenance that must be carried out immediately to repair a malfunctioning or broken machine.
Corrective and Routine Maintenance: This maintenance involves determining the cause of an issue, scheduling a corrective maintenance activity, and performing routine maintenance on equipment to keep it operating at its best.
Planned Maintenance: This maintenance is typically scheduled in advance, and the equipment is taken offline, disassembled and inspected. Preventative maintenance is carried out as needed, and the equipment is re-assembled and tested.
Major maintenance: This is maintenance that is associated with significant costs, time, effort, or resources, and it typically involves the replacement of major components or systems. It may involve bringing in outside contractors, suppliers or technicians.