Operations Management
Operations Management
13th Edition
ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14.S, Problem 8DRQ
Summary Introduction

To determine: Advantages of preventive maintenance over breakdown maintenance.

Introduction: A preventive maintenance is a practical method which facilitate in decreasing breakdowns with assistance from a course of lubrication, modification, cleaning, examination and restoring parts with defect. Breakdown maintenance is executed on machines and equipments that has not working and is unusable. It depends on a breakdown maintenance set off. It might be either anticipated or prearranged. It can be more expensive than preventive maintenance.

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